4/16/2023 0 Comments David bowden traderThat's when he began to look around for other iconic race cars, the ones that no one cared for, as in those days nothing had less value than an old and no longer competitive race car. Many were being stripped and sold for the worth of their parts, dumping what was left. He bought it and spent the best bit of the next decade restoring the car back to its most glorious moment - how it won the now legendary Easter 1972 Bathurst race against Moffat's mighty Mustang. He had a memorable drive of it around Surfers Paradise to help bed in the brakes. The look, noise and power of the fuel injected 600+BHP Cleveland engine got his attention, especially as it lit the wheels up in all 4 gears! What he found a decade later just broke his heart, the Super Falcon had become an unloved relic, that was truthfully not far from being taken to the tip. In 1982 David tracked down one of 'Pete's Geoghegan's' famous old race cars, the 1971 GTHO Super Falcon.
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