Street Machine

DARK & STORMY

IT’S NOT too often you see a stripped-out XY sitting in a driveway these days, so when you do, chances are the owner is worth having a yarn with. Rob Herrington did exactly that, his chance encounter on the street sparking both a new friendship and a massive ratcheting-up of his Falcon project into a deep-black, 820hp powerhouse.

“I bought the car just over five years ago from up the back of Lake Eildon,” Rob begins. “The original guy had put it in a shed in Echuca after completely stripping it to bare metal and undercoating it. The

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