Street Machine

YESTERDAY’S Hero

YING someone else’s project car can be a recipe for disaster, with hidden issues and dodgy work threatening to kill the good times. But Vince Livaditis’s experience with his ’65 XP Falcon coupe has proved to be quite the opposite. “I’d seen the car around the traps for quite a few years, and as an early Falcon fan, I fell in love with it,” Vince says. “I’d owned an XP sedan many years ago and I love the styling. After that I bought a 265 Hemi Valiant VG hardtop and stuck a 500hp, 408ci Mopar small-block

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