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Just another typical day at the shop. .

We have a pretty good assortment going on today-
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mysunnshine said:
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Ding ding ding. 351, or 5.9L. Aussie built Cleveland engine which followed on from the Windsor. Cleveland was a shorter stroke, bigger bore, flatter V (90deg) than the Windsor. Higher revving but not as much torque. That engine in "Shaker" GT form pictured (Shaker because the air scoop being on the carb but thru the bonnet) used to jump around all over the place whilst gettin busy beating everything on the road except an RT Charger. Interesting fact here for your customer (and one perhaps better not said) is that Shaker doesn't belong on the XA hardtop (71/72) as seen in your pictures. It was ONLY ever fitted to the XYGTHO raced at Bathurst and available to buy for the street in 69/70 IIRC. That car now, XYGTHO Phase 3 to be precise, is a half million $ prospect now for an original.
What you have there is an XA coupe with a nice engine. If it was a GT it would have vents in the fenders behind the front wheels and maybe some stuck on ones in front of the rears. The big challenge when I was moving in those circles was to be able to afford the MASSIVE meat require to fill those cavernous rear quarters.

Edit: just looked at the photo again, he has done a superb job on filling said quarters, but whatever is where the rear vents should be needs to be addressed. "Bathurst Globe" wheels are perfect!! Nice machine having said all that and I'd be ecstatic to own that.

FWIW the most iconic race car ever built in Australia is this
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Although I think this is only a model :sh:
 
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gazzo said:
Ding ding ding. 351, or 5.9L. Aussie built Cleveland engine which followed on from the Windsor. Cleveland was a shorter stroke, bigger bore, flatter V (90deg) than the Windsor. Higher revving but not as much torque. That engine in "Shaker" GT form pictured (Shaker because the air scoop being on the carb but thru the bonnet) used to jump around all over the place whilst gettin busy beating everything on the road except an RT Charger. Interesting fact here for your customer (and one perhaps better not said) is that Shaker doesn't belong on the XA hardtop (71/72) as seen in your pictures. It was ONLY ever fitted to the XYGTHO raced at Bathurst and available to buy for the street in 69/70 IIRC. That car now, XYGTHO Phase 3 to be precise, is a half million $ prospect now for an original.
What you have there is an XA coupe with a nice engine. If it was a GT it would have vents in the fenders behind the front wheels and maybe some stuck on ones in front of the rears. The big challenge when I was moving in those circles was to be able to afford the MASSIVE meat require to fill those cavernous rear quarters.

Edit: just looked at the photo again, he has done a superb job on filling said quarters, but whatever is where the rear vents should be needs to be addressed. "Bathurst Globe" wheels are perfect!! Nice machine having said all that and I'd be ecstatic to own that.

FWIW the most iconic race car ever built in Australia is this
227043f1d3282e8e855b49cde053aeba-1.jpg

Although I think this is only a model :sh:
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You know, you dang Aussies got all kinds of cool cars down there. I'd have your assortment of Jeeps along (Overlander....:()
with a Holden Monaro and a Falcon XBGT. Yes, I'm a big Mad Max fan.
 
wm69 said:
You know, you dang Aussies got all kinds of cool cars down there. I'd have your assortment of Jeeps along (Overlander....:()
with a Holden Monaro and a Falcon XBGT. Yes, I'm a big Mad Max fan.
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Just saw there is a new Mad Max movie coming out soon.
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Picture of my first car, a 70 Torino.
 
That land cruiser in the back is "the next big thing" in my opinion.
And I'd love that Bronco too just for the record.
 
Love the old Broncos. When I bought my first CJ-7, a good used 67-77 Bronco was about $3-5K, same as a CJ. Now CJ's are still about $3-5K, and a beater 67-77 Bronco is 2-3x's that.
 
Yea It's the same one. That customer knows that we will be using it as "fill" work when needed and in turn gets a discounted labor rate. It's really close to running though. All I have to do to it now is finish the hard fuel lines and run some battery cables. Then I can run the engine on the dyno to tune the fuel injection. After that, it'll get blown completely apart and sent to the body guy which will strip the body down to bare metal and put some really nice paint on this thing.
 
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