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Bathed In A Yellow Glow
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Barn find! 1971 Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III to fetch in excess of $300,000
https://www.caradvice.com.au/887292/...ess-of-300000/ . |
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Another one to watch vicariously from the couch...
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Where exactly are all these Barns?
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No joke but that's what they do with the 'dirty' potatoes they sell at the supermarkets...
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No drivetrain, electrics etc. You may be onto something? Perhaps it was horse drawn lol
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i see steal termites are now getting in to centre consoles
so its been heavily modified and no driveline love the front mags on back to front almost makes you think , if they dont know what their doing do they know what their talking bout or selling
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What's the bet down the track, that an amazingly coincidental set of circumstances come together in space and time, and the 'original' engine is located in a dusty old shed somewhere!
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The way I see it with the guards flared like they are the front rims & tyres are as per the last setup and the rears would be even wider.
Maybe it was used as some type of circuit racer. I can remember back in the early 80's seeing a few street cars including XY's with flared guards and an extremely wide footprint similar to this car. . |
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Where did you get that furphy from?.Unwashed spuds are exactly that,unwashed, but sometimes brushed and other times,just as they come out of the ground.
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The video mentions it's been raced and heavily modified over it's lifetime, plus there's a few 'ANDRA' stickers on it, it is what it is.
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The fact of these getting maximum publicity is good and bad. I can think of a few in years past where cars were pinched from sheds and paddocks then sold - now not so easy. Yet the temptation must be ramping up for all the people who know of “something” and think they might have a claim to possession. I worry about one (non Ford) race car a friend has tucked away in Sydney’s west; it would be a prime target...
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"1971 Ford Falcon GTHO XY Phase 3
Closes: 3d 4h 40m $236,209 The reserve price has not been reached " |
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I am Groot
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From back in her glory days......
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Side pipes, flared guards, huge wheels and a big bonnet scoop, all adds up to a tough muscle car. Love to be able to read the placard in the show stand.
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Wow, stand corrected on the wheels.
Its got more of a sports sedan flavor than a drag racer too me. Looks like it was more of a tough streeter though.
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Over the last 30 odd yrs I've loaded out of a few Potato Farms/Packing Houses. & More often than Not the Brushed Spuds are Washed One Sprinkled with Dirt as the go up an Elavator. i even know of One place that Imported Dirt in that was a Different Colour to the Soil that the Spuds grew In.. Mods,Sorry for the Topic Hijack.. |
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What the hell was with the distributor on that thing?
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It was also a champagne cooler...
Hey, it was the 80s
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My mate knows the car, his ex misses (owners) smashed it up with a baseball bat and took the tags off it. He bought them back, recent passed away and the sons are selling up. Apparently had a few cars down there.
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Yeah you can see it's been vandalised in the pics on the auction site, dented roof/panels, smashed lights and busted glass all over the floor in the back seating area.......sad!
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She probably gave him the "Car or me" ultimatum...and he chose wisely
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Info provided after the sale of the car of course
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Looks a bit like Geoghegan's Super XY
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DIY Tragic
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A barn find, smashed up with a baseball bat.
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Barn find where was the barn? Alice Springs? they could have at least left the engine in the car.
I remember once Allan Moffat said when he went to a Ford Day at the Ford factory in Victoria. I haven't seen so many XY GTHOs in one place which is funny because Ford only built 300 of them". |
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