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THEY say you never forget your first. Many moons ago, I was a teenage apprentice mechanic at a performance shop, and one of my boss’s best mates owned a beautiful white XY Fairmont running a tough 302 Windsor. Working on that XY was a formative experience for me. It was the first car I heard with a big stall converter and diff dumper exhausts, the first I rolled the guards on, and the first I rode shotgun in while power-skidding up the street.
That boss’s mate was a young Vinnie Tigani, and that beautiful XY was the very car spread across these pages. In the 30 years since those days, a lot has changed with this Fairmont, but then again, there’s plenty that hasn’t.
“When I was a kid, my dad Tony had a white XW sedan, and I fell
