IT TAKES a special kind of person to build the same model of car several times, especially when you’ve already taken one to the dizzying heights of Summernats Grand Champion. Grant Connor is that person, and he’s back on the scene with another killer XR Falcon.
“I’m obsessed with them,” the Orange, NSW bloke laughs. “It stems from when I was a little kid. My mate’s brother had one out in a paddock, and the round tail-lights had me mesmerised. As I got older, I progressed through the Auto Salon stuff and then I got into V8s, but I always remembered the XR tail-lights.”
This is the fourth XR Grant’s owned, following a stocker in his younger years, a 1000hp drag car, and of course the stunning ‘Bad Apple’ sedan Summernats 31. “Through COVID, I couldn’t race the drag car so I sold it,” he says. “I’d always wanted a blown XR Falcon; it was really hard to do that to Bad Apple, so I thought I’d build another one.”
