MY FAVOURITE PHOTO Blown Group A VK Commodore

Serdar is no stranger to tough street cars. They have consumed his life for as long as he can remember, with around thirty XW’s and XY’s occupying his driveway of the years as well as four XE ESP Falcons and a Genuine XB GT Hardtop. There’s also been a couple of Holden’s, but Serdar didn’t elaborate on those. These days, his garage plays host to a trio of tough Ford’s including this old-school styled XW Fairmont. More on the other two soon. Serdar swapped a bucket load of cash for the keys to this XW after his mate decided that 10-years of housing the car with little usage was enough reason to part company with it. At that stage, the Fairmont had gone through a transformation from street car to drag car, complete with fibreglass panels, roll cage and a coat of green paint. With more interest in driving the Fairmont on the street, Serdar when through the process of putting the XW back to more of a tough street car. The original sheet-metal was bolted back on, the roll cage removed and the green paint rubbed down in readiness for the shiny new Brambles Red colour with familiar GT blackouts, badges and striping. Alex at Extreme Paint handled the body and paint duties, bringing the body back to as new and removing a piece of bonnet metal before the PPG paint was laid on. The XW’s early years as a stock Fairmont are now just a distant memory.

There are a couple of changes he would like to make though including the wheels and a switch back to Premium Pump fuel just to make it easy to refill...

Like the exterior, the insides resemble the GT Falcon of the time with lots of black vinyl covering the seats, door trims and headliner, with a splash of GT-wood trimming on the dash, doors and the restored GT steering wheel. If it wasn’t for the B&M shifter adapted to the GT console, you’d swear you were driving in 1970. At least the fuel would be cheap! Upright Upholstery are responsible to the rejuvenation of the interior space.

He’s not into blowers or turbo’s, relying only on the raw horsepower produced the old school way – without the aid of any power adders!

THANKS TO; First up, my wife for putting with everything associated with building a car like this. Alex at Extreme Paint. A good mate of mine, Vid Saab (please check that as I couldn’t read your writing) for helping with the fit up and final touches to get it finished and for the use of his hoist.