FOR Brendan Wright, there’s never been a time when this stunning XM Falcon coupe wasn’t in his life. Of course, it didn’t always go, steer and stop quite like this.
“This was my pop, Bob’s car,” the Thirlmere, NSW bloke says proudly. “It was bought in 1978 for $97. Times were tough back then; Pop scraped together every spare dollar he could, even emptying his money box to make the purchase.”
The six-pot, automatic coupe was already nearly 15 years old by that point, and eventually it passed between family members until it landed in the backyard of Brendan’s uncle. Brendan’s dad, Norm, purchased it around 2010 and enlisted
