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GLENN REWELL TOOK HIS FORGOTTEN FALCON 500 AND REBUILT IT INTO ONE HELL OF A TRIBUTE TO THE GOLDEN ERA OF STREET MACHINING

- KIAN HEAGNEY

REMEMBER when XB Falcons were virtually worthless and used by young 'uns as paddock bashers? Glenn Rewell does, because that's exactly what he did with this Falcon back in the day.

“I got the car as a trade-in at the local Ford dealership in Castlemaine, Victoria around 1985. It was $300, and as an apprentice, I needed something to get around,” says Glenn. “They weren't a sought-after car, so we bush-bashed it, jumped it, did burnouts, and used the wheelwells in the boot to store beer and ice – which young me didn't realise created the rust I had to fix years later!”

Despite the abuse, the trusty Falcon never let Glenn down. Once he started his business in 1990, the XB was retired for a shop ute and sat dormant in his parents' shed for the next 33 years.

“In 2023, my son was showing interest in it, so we chucked a battery and some fuel in it and she fired right up, and we drove it home,” says Glenn. “My son was super keen, and without telling me, he entered it into Summernats and tore it apart. But then he lost interest and I ended up building the thing!”