FALCON HELL!

THE car that kick-started Jason’s love affair with historic Sport Sedans is this oh-so-cool XE Falcon. The limited information Jason has been able to gather on the car suggests it was built in Queensland by a gentleman by the name of John Butler, after his 307ci Chev-powered EH Holden Sports Sedan was damaged beyond repair in a crash. The driveline was salvaged, and John put together this Falcon as a full tube-chassis car around the EH’S motor and gearbox. “The car was literally a chassis with a body on it when I found it,” Jason says. “It had no wheels, no driveline, no suspension – nothing. It was built in 1983, last raced in 1993 or ’94, and stripped and shoved under a gumtree in the late 90s. “So far we’ve set it up with a 307ci short motor, Top Loader and a braced nine-inch, and got it rolling and steering. That meant fabricating the front control arms and rear four-link from scratch. All we had to go off was the mounting points on the chassis, and research around what other cars of the era had – whether they used square or round tube, heim joints or ball joints – and then we just started from the mounting points out. It’s all been done in moly and uses HQ spindles and brakes and a Torana steering rack. “The coolest part about the car is the livery – it’s still as it was originally painted in the early 80s. I don’t want to repaint it!”