HOTTER PROPERTY
AS SOON AS I SAW IT, I RECOGNISED IT AS GEORGE ANTHONY’S OLD BUILD. ITS LIFE AS A DRAG CAR HAD TAKEN A TOLL, BUT IT WAS STILL A GOOD BASIS FOR A NEW BUILD
WHEN a young George Anthony spent his late teens and early 20s building up a once-beige XB Fairmont sedan into a lemon-yellow showstopper, little did he know the legacy he would create and how much of an impact this build would have on more than three decades of hot-car fans.
Its look was unmistakable – the Paul Bennett-applied bright yellow paint and graphics were highlighted by eight chrome injection stacks slicing through the bonnet and 14-inch-wide Center Lines stuffed under the McDonald Brothers tubbed and clipped rear. We featured the XB as Hot Property back in , June ’88,
