THE KEEPER

SERDAR KARABULUI IS USED TO BUYING A CAR, DOING IT UP AND SELLING IT OFF. BUT THIS 855HP XY FALCON AIN'T GOING ANYWHERE

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SOME folks will build one car and cherish it for all eternity. For others, like Serdar Karabulut, cars are something that come and go. I’ve owned a lot of cars over the years,” Serdar says. “I’d finish a car, get offered the right money for it, and I’d move it on. During this build, I finished and sold another XW, as well as bought, rebuilt and raced a US Falcon Futura.”

Neither the XW nor the drag car (see sidebar, p.65) were shabby, but for Serdar, PRO430 is different. This one’s a keeper.

“An XY with a factory wind-back sunroof was always my dream car,” says Serdar. “I spotted it on eBay about nine years ago up in Toowoomba as an unfinished project in primer. Initially, I wasn’t interested, but when I realised it was a sunroof car, I flew up and did the deal.”