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50 EXTRAORDINARY YEARS!

In February of this year, with minimal public recognition or media hoopla, yet another record was set by a car that had been doing just that for very close to half a century.

A few months earlier and with considerable fanfare, an HSV Maloo utility – one of four such vehicles made – set a new benchmark price for the sale of a series production vehicle in Australia.

That title had been held previously by a GT-HO Phase III Falcon; one of 300 built and with

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