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What was my Dad thinking when he backed the bank loan for this Ford XW Falcon GT?
Although I was only 18 years old, the GT was my second car, replacing a Mini Cooper S.
My Dad had bought an XW station wagon as the family car when we were younger, so I guess the model stuck and I had to have one.Â
She was an April-built 1970 Candy Apple GT with the Cleveland 351 and four-speed Toploader. I bought it from a bloke in Kurri Kurri for $7,500 around 1985, which was a lot of money at the time. I worked 70 hours a week to pay it off but couldn’t afford to keep it on the road so it stayed mostly garaged.Â
She was modified, and went pretty hard. Regrettably, I sold it in the early 1990s… If only I knew then, what I know now.
Memories from Andrew Basford. Source: Survivor Car Australia.Â
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