The Shit Pit

[DocBob]

My ex missus got in contact with me because she advertised her XY Falcon for sale on Spacebook and Marketplace…… and only received nothing but scammers or ridicule from uneducated idiots without a dollar in their pockets or an ounce of knowledge about classical muscle cars

It’s a full nut and bolt restoration with the very best components that money can buy, with many parts that we got built in the USA and shipped to Australia, plenty of custom hand made features that I incorporated into the build, took us 8 years to build at a cost of $200k plus……… even with me doing most of the work myself and using my business contacts to get the very best in the industry to pitch in and produce probably one of the very best XY Falcons on the market.

Advertised for $110k, less than half of the build cost, only 2000 klm since built and has no other XY Falcon in the country with the many big dollar custom built features as this thing has.

All she got in reply was the standard scammer stories mentioned above, and a ton of broken arse idiots commenting that “it’s not a GT, it’s not a Phase 3” etc…….yeah, no shit Sherlock, it wasn’t ever advertised as being one!

I have driven many highly expensive original XR/XW/XY GT’s and Phase 3’s, even a “Phase4” powered XA Falcon ex-Police Pursuit car, and can honestly say that the legend is larger than the actual true life experience ……… as they might have been “groundbreaking” at their time in the late 60’s/early 70’s, but compared with a modern day vehicle, a Grandmother’s HYUNDAI shopping trolley could match the same performance these days!

So basically, the XY that she is selling makes a Phase 3 look like a Toyota Corolla and is loaded with a high amount of modern features that the standard original GT’s could never dream of offering.

At the end of the day, it’s more beneficial staying away from the shitshow that is Spacebook/Market Place and try finding specific clubs/hobby enthusiast groups who have the knowledge and brains to appreciate the value of the product that you are selling.

Now try and visualise the amount of time and money spent to produce the vehicle below from what we started out with……….

[DocBob]

All bodywork completed in brand new hand formed panels and steel repairs…… absolutely NO aftermarket Rare Spares shit Chinese “steel” parts.

Electronic Fuel Injected 408 Cubic Inch/6.7 litre V8 Stoker Engine built in the USA to my personal specs/instructions, billet alloy accessories bracket with billet serpentine belt system pulleys/components, and Dyno tuned by a NASCAR specialist (so ignore the original 351 cu in number plates!), with custom built Gearbox modified to suit 1000 hp.

Extensive modifications to the steering column/chassis to retrofit later model XF Falcon power steering system.

Rear inertia belts custom fitted to run through parcel shelf and units secured inside the boot to inner wheel housings, along with hidden sound system with speakers mounted under parcel shelf/dash and hidden behind custom trim work.

Interior was custom made using five cow hides in blue leather and grey suede highlights with custom Basketball style stitching, custom coloured console/dash pad, (Consoles are only available in black, dash pads/armrests only available in black or brown), embroidered logo’s in the door trims.

Handmade gear shifter mechanism modified from a standard B&M unit to fit within the GT console, custom dashboard with imported special made blue background coloured instruments directly designed/ordered from AUTOMETER USA specifically for this vehicle.

Plenty more custom details inside and out, as well as mechanical modifications/improvements to the brakes/driveline/suspension etc.

Silver body stripes were sourced through myself contacting the FORD Motor Company directly and organised to have their suppliers of their BA etc GT models to ship to us the same decals that they fit to the factory GT models, but custom made to the measurements that I sent them to fit the XY body dimensions.

This thing is like a Ferrari compared with the original 1971 GT Falcons that were made way back then……. and yet people are giving her nothing but abuse about the asking price for this vehicle?

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BTW……… anyone here willing to stop spending coin on Gelblasters for a few months and want to buy a nice XY Falcon?

I’m just wondering if I will get a single penny from the sale for all of my money and blood/sweat/tears that I invested for the 8 years building this thing!

[Bikersmurf]

I have owned a few xy Falcons in my time .
Yours is probably the best modified one I have seen.
I can appreciate the time and effort gone into building it.
And I would rather have that than a Ferrari anyday.
Fuckit place, glumtree , slezebay are not the place to sell something like this.
Car clubs, word of mouth and may be unique car magazine.would be the go.
At least your dealing with people who have some idea with what is involved with such a build.
I would love to buy it but the wife said if I want it .
It’s my turn to start turning trick’s to pay for it.

[Friendly_Fire]

That XY is beyond drop dead gorgeous, Doc… it’s insanely beautiful. It’s easy to see the effort, time and money you’ve sunk into it, it’s absolutely stunning.

Growing up a Ford nut in the '70s, XYs were the holy grail of cars for me… when it came time to buy my first wheels on my 18th birthday in '79 the old man and I headed off to the local dodgy used car dealer… and I mean dodgy. Sitting amongst his lot of about a dozen wholesale cars was a beautiful white XY Fairmont… $1,500, right on the limit of my budget, but man… I wanted it, love at first sight

The old boy had gone guarantor on my credit union loan and he was a Holden fan… there also happened to be an EH Special 149 sitting on that lot for $700. I guess the old man figured he was being a responsible dad and also figured his guarantorship gave him veto rights on my choice, I kept looking over the Fairmont, he kept dragging me back to the Special, telling me “You’ll walk away with change out of this one.” No prizes for guessing which car I drove home.

Lucky I did get change out of it, that 149 had to have a top end and gearbox rebuild within about two months… I guess the old man’s haweye vision was blind to the oil smoke on idle and the cloud of it out of the pipe on gear changes. Not to mention the flogged out king pins… repairs were all done by me, so I guess it was a good learning experience.

I never did get the bug to own an XY out of my system, 42 years later on it still needs a scratch whenever I see a good one.

I’m scratching now!

[Bikersmurf]

You can always join me on my local street corner.
Hours are 9pm-9am
Dress slutty

[Friendly_Fire]

Damn… now I’ve gotta drag the fishnets and g-banger out of storage… again.

[JazzyWard]

Finally, something to blow my money on now that I can’t buy blasters.

[Friendly_Fire]

I dunno whether “blow” is such a good choice of word here, Jazz…

[Bikersmurf]

INCASE YOU NEEDED SOME ADVICE ON HOW-TO VOTE

[BME]

Hang on, incoming message…

" I Love the car… i’ll take it…but…

I work out in the mines…in WA…

Also, i’m sick…but don’t worry…

Lets do a Pay-it later…, swap,
and, i’ll send a friend out later, to pick it up…

After, you send me , all your bank account details…

signed sincerely…

@deadsquid…!!"

Oh, dear…!!!

[Friendly_Fire]

Anyone catch Kamal’s interview on The Project tonight?

He got on the show on the premise he was a reformed no voter on the upcoming referendum and was going to vote yes… a poster boy for the yes campaigners. They even showed Albo’s interview where he coined that “Kamalmemtum” shocker and virtually patted him on the back for swapping over to the yes camp.

What Kamal didn’t tell them until the live interview was that he’d changed his mind after announcing his yes vote and was going to be voting no… again funniest interview ever, seeing the panel go into damage control.

Might go into the idiom as “pulling a Kamal” when you do a switcheroo, a bit like “pulling a Bradbury” got adopted into the vernacular for anyone who wins because they’re the only one who didn’t fail.

[DocBob]

That’s the exact scam my ex missus received.
The whole “working away on the mines and get a relative/transport company to collect the vehicle” etc. didn’t ring any alarm bells for her at first, as she even checked out the “minesite” that this person had specified, which did turn out to match his story.

It wasn’t until she was asked for the money transfer to be made through PayPal that she started to get suspicious, so called me to ask if it was a scam.

I simply replied, “Who the hell spends $110k on a vehicle, and their first concerns are about how the payment method is the most important topic.”

Normal genuine buyers would have a thousand questions about the vehicle, ask for photos to be sent and first priority, if still interested in buying, is to arrange for a personal inspection/drive of the vehicle.

She thought about this and the penny dropped, and unfortunately those sorts of multiple Scammer replies caused her to simply remove it from the Online Marketplace altogether.

I’m now helping her to find a buyer through my business/work contacts through word of mouth and just putting it out there into our West Australian Classic/Muscle/Collector Car Community……. where it’s simply real people who are in the market for the right vehicle, who are also sick of scammers who are advertising vehicles that simply don’t exist in the hopes of scamming money out of buyers as well!

[Maiphut]

Yea nah fuckbook won’t let you post anything firearm looking unless your ip comes from america. Thank your lovely gubbermint.

[Maiphut]

Woah dood, I just got a stiffy. Sex on wheels right there. I can send ya 150 lambs that’ll do it right

Seeing as you asked yes I did have a multi year relationship with a Crows cheerleader. I know very little can make that claim to fame.

[Friendly_Fire]

@DocBob

That’s the exact scam my ex missus received.

Mate, they’re not big on imagination are they?

I would have thought these Einsteins would have come up with something more original by now.

[exakel]

so the only blasters i can have are in video games now… sigh.

[exakel]

facebook is totally rubbish anyway. i don’t even have an account.

[exakel]

do people like to get things just to spite other people?

[JazzyWard]

Have you not seen those seppo morons who buy Nikes just to burn them, or whatever? Dogmatic idiots will do anything just for an epic dunk/to own the libs/whatever nonsense either side says.

Meanwhile, the companies selling them the stuff to burn/smash/whatever make out like bandits, because now the idiots have to replace the things they broke.

[exakel]

i wouldn’t go that far.