Thanks Tony, thats interesting. There has been some discussion Brian Bowater had a couple of XY Falcons and that this might be the other.
This was my first race car back in 1974, brought it with a 4 cylinder Victor engine then ran a 179 X2 Holden engine, it ran a 12 second 1/4 mile which isn't that fast but it was only a bit over 4 seconds slower than the National record at the time which makes it a 12 second pass sound better.
Wow. Here I am enjoying these great photos and, lo and behold, I stumble across one of my own car (post #55).
As noted, it is currently being reassembled after a bare metal restoration.
I bought this car from Walsh Motors in 1979. It was first registered in Nelson in 1973.
I ran it at a couple of street meets at Meremere back in the 80s. Best run was 14.0 at 101.2.
I just wanted to say thanks to the original poster of these great photo threads. I was at the inaugural Meremere meeting as a 15 year old and attended a number of drag meetings thereafter. These photos bring back some great memories!
Last edited by Humai; 02-27-2017 at 12:57 AM.