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SERENA CHANNING
Street Machine Australia
|May 2025
KINGSTHORPE, QUEENSLAND
A SECOND-generation Iron Maiden is in the making thanks to Serena Channing and her hot-pink XD Fairmont Ghia. Serena's seven-year-old daughter Laura is a go-karting champ, and the colour of Serena's XD was decided upon by way of a mother-daughter agreement. In fact, the entire project has been a family affair for these dyed-in-the-wool Ford fanatics.
Sounds like your whole family are keen revheads, Serena!Yeah, we have quite a few cars - all Fords and all V8s or turbocharged. Even my daily is a BF Typhoon. My daughter has now claimed the XD as hers, along with a couple of our other cars. And while I was pregnant last year with my son, he would move around in my belly when I'd go to the go-karts or be around our cars when they were started. He loved it!
This story is from the May 2025 edition of Street Machine Australia.
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