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ALL THAT GLITTERS

ENTERING the Jubilee Pavilion for the first time over the 2019 Easter weekend is a breathtaking experience. Hundreds of Australia’s finest factory Ford muscle cars are on display, but photographer Troy looks worried.

“They’re all brown!” he says, exasperated. I gently inform him that we’ve stepped straight into XR Falcon GT-land, where all but a handful of the 596 units built were painted ‘GT Gold’.

A proper survey of the facility reveals that the colour palette is in fact much more varied, as are

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