Ford Zephyr/Zodiac Mk IV

G Luxel · 04-04-2006 9:24pm #1

This is one of my favourites. But I haven't seen any on the roads?
There were the hearse conversions and one Stretch Limousine that
I spotted plus one ZV import registered car. Where are the rest of them?
In particularly the executive model.

junkyard · 05-04-2006 8:13pm

I sold an imported Zodiac Executive about 2 years ago and I have a hearse version too but needs a bit of body work.:)

manta mad · 05-04-2006 8:33pm

theres a fella over the road from me that has one on the road , a great big lump of a car

must be thirsty & a hell of a car to park in town ?
but it do:s look well.

junkyard · 05-04-2006 10:14pm

Its not that bad to drive the executive has powersteering but its heavy on petrol alright.

Toolguy · 19-09-2011 4:12pm

I have one of these Vodiacs, a '68 V6. I was delivering goods to a fellow's house one day and he had it for sale, so we did a swap - goods for the car. He had been driving it, in and out to work, so was MOT'd at the time and in good working order. The bodywork is good on it, although paint has dulled a little. Brakes are shot.

Hopefully I'll get a bit of time this winter to get it sorted out.

Arthur Daley · 19-09-2011 7:08pm

Was there one knocking around in mint condition that used to belong to Jack Lynch in the 70s?

carchaeologist · 19-09-2011 7:56pm

This is a serious archaeological dig of a thread!:D

Yes, Jack Lynchs car is still about, it featured in Irish Vintage Scene a few years back. Not one of Fords best big cars, they didnt call it the 'Aircraft carrier' for nothing!

Toolguy · 29-09-2011 10:45am

Haha! Yes, it was a dig. Didn't realise until after I posted how old the original post was. I'll have to learn on here a bit quicker

Mahatma coat · 29-09-2011 7:21pm

Quite simmilar in styling to the Australian Falcon of the same era

mk1esc · 30-09-2011 1:54pm

the wine one knocking around baltinglass went to aughrim and since then it has moved on....that was pretty recent...say in the last year or so

G Luxel · 30-09-2011 4:37pm

I didnt realise that I had actually created that thread. Since then, I have seen 3 imported Zephyr/Zodiacs on ZV plates in the One day....in different parts of the West. I still think that most of them were scrapped after they had been relegated to Taxi work. Where I live, there used to be hackney/taxi's that were using this car in popularity. I last saw a zodiac taxi being used in Tramore in 1986. It must have been at least 15 years old by then. It was green with twin headlights and the wheeltrims that were used by the Transit Campervan. I would think that there are a few, if tiny minority of Cork-built Zodiacs still out there, if you take away the Irish-built lowline hearses that operated in nearly every town and village in Ireland.

Ford Zephyr/Zodiac Mk IV

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