MICK’S FIVE ∗ STAR WORKSHOP
SCOTT’S XA
One of our customers, Scott, has landed on his feet like the proverbial cat. He decided to get himself a project car and zeroed in on what you see here, an XA hardtop. He bought this from the other side of the continent – Western Australia – as a part-completed project car. Given WA’s borders have been locked up tight, he couldn’t fly over and eyeball the thing, and so was relying on photos and what the seller could tell him.
He hadn’t seen it until it rolled up to our workshop on a flatbed, so you can imagine he was more than a bit jumpy about whether he’d done the right thing. First impressions? He did very well. It may not be an oil painting in its current state, but underneath it seems like a good solid buy.
Why jump in? Scott reckons he’s had bikes as toys over time and has kept a couple, but with a young family coming along he wanted something he could more readily share. “I’ve always admired the hardtops,” he said. “My brother
