Faleon XR-LENT

SITTING ABANDONED IN THE BACK OF THE FAMILY SHED FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS WAS LONG ENOUGH FOR THIS CLASSIC AUSSIE SEDAN.

WORDS: SHANE WISHNOWSKI

You can almost guarantee that in every single photo album in the back of a wardrobe of any suburban New Zealand home there will be at least one photo of — depending on your age — your parents or grandparents proudly posing beside or behind the wheel of their car, such is the love affair we Kiwis have with our automobiles. This was the same for Talia Pearson — the stunning 1968 Falcon XR you see on these pages was her grandparents’ car. Her parents even used it as their wedding car. To say the Falcon holds sentimental value for the family is a bit of an understatement. But in 1983, the year Talia was born, the car met an untimely death courtesy of a head-on with a fully laden…

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NZV8 (Digital) - 1 Issue, No 199 December 2021

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