It's been a very, very long time since I travelled in an XA or an XB Falcon. My first experience of the early 70s flagship of the Aussie Ford fleet was being driven from Melbourne to Burleigh Heads, Queensland, and back again in a 351 V8-powered XB panel van. It was metallic green, equipped with a four speed floor shift, full windows, a mattress in the back and barn doors. My aunt and mother took turns driving while my three cousins, brother and I lolled about in the back, unfettered by anything as annoyingly restrictive as seatbelts. You may have already guessed it was the 1970s ; this would doubtlessly be frowned upon today, especially when I caught my mother hitting 80 mp/h (130 km/h) overtaking a truck! Several mates had XAs and XBs early on during our driving careers, too. Flakey had a sinister black XA van that looked cool but was pretty much a bucket of pus! He reprised his love of the model with a sky blue V8 XB van with black GS stripes and 12 slotters a few ye
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