Re: Back in the day what car would you buy
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I had a 250 2v XA 4 door . Cav was correct the motor was Canadian built, it had a twin barrel carb with a water cooled manifold and extractors straight from the factory. It could hold it's own with the 302s of the day too. But if I could go back the XA GT coupe my dad had would be my choice , I spent many happy hours driving that car and just before he sold it , on it's last Bathurst trip, I hit 145mph before I had to brake for a T intersection and ran out of road. It shattered many an L34 owners dreams and my dad drove it like he stole it, even had the constabulary write him out a speeding ticket in our local waterhole way back then.
That's the thing though , all of these cars were great in their era , but on todays congested roads they would be a handful and todays laws just wouldn't let them be the fun they were intended to be, much like many of todays cars. Hey but I am an old fart and I can dream..............
GT450
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