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Old 26-09-2020, 06:37 PM   #1
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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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Where exactly are all these Barns?
Put some red soil through a sieve into a bucket then lightly dust.

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Put some red soil through a sieve into a bucket then lightly dust.

There are many different ways to detail a car for sale.

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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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Who knew the Amish were so into steel muscle cars?
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Who knew the Amish were so into steel muscle cars?
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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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
They're either real potato heads or the photo is deliberate to make you act a certain way when talking to them....
We did similar in training lectures, put deliberate typo or two on page one, certain types of personalities are
compelled to tell you that you've made a mistake......
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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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No joke but that's what they do with the 'dirty' potatoes they sell at the supermarkets...
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 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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Agree, the (big) rears would most likely have been sold of to another racer and a couple of skinny's fitted to roll it around.

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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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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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.
That maybe the case in Tassie! But Not on the mainland..

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..

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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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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.
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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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!
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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A barn find, smashed up with a baseball bat.

As someone who chooses to be Australian, this convergence annoys and disappoints me.
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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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A barn find, smashed up with a baseball bat.

As someone who chooses to be Australian, this convergence annoys and disappoints me.
Haha, yes, should have been a cricket bat in a chook shed
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