Australian Muscle Car

Mini Muscle with Bruce Moxon

For a car in production for such a short time – about a year – Ford’s XW model Falcon GT-HO Phase II certainly generated plenty of model interest. Let’s start with our cover car, the Diamond White press car. Well, Classic Carlectables produced a lovely 1:18 example in this very colour. There were 2750 examples made in this colour, so maybe the prices for this 2008 release are not totally stupid.

And of course, there are plenty of other road versions – Grecian Gold, Brambles Red and Starlight Blue; 1000 each of the former and just 650

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