Street Machine

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IT WAS unfinished business with an XB that he’d owned around 15 years ago that made it all the more important for Jason ‘Tommo’ Thomas to park this stunning 1976 Falcon sedan in his garage. This time, things would be different. “I bought that first XB all those years ago, and I rang my mate and he goes, ‘I’ve just found one too,’” the paint-and-panel shop manager explains. “We’d bought our XBs at the same time on the same day.”

Yet that Falcon soon fell victim to Tommo’s Ford-flipping addiction. “I was building that first XB up, and it got to a point where I was waiting for an engine to start getting built and I just

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