I was at work the other week , and a collegue was speaking to me about a certain XYGT that he know's about sitting rotting away in a yard, now at this stage me ear's sprung into action and he told me where this house was, he also told me that many people know about it and have asked the owner if he wanted to sell, but evidently , he is a arogant bloke that won't sell, won't touch it and is leaving it there to the ruin's.
That night I called around to have a look, Now no one lives at this house where the susopedly GT lives, I knocked on the door , to no avail, until a lady driving past, stoped and said "no body lives there mate", she pulled up and got out and asked me what was I doing, I poliety told her that I wanted to contact the owner regarding the "old Falcon" up the back, now there are two of them, one is the GT, the other is an XE wagon, so I could have been talking about either of them.
She then got on the mobile and rang someone, I thought she was ringing the cop's on me, I asked her who was she ringing , "the owner" she replied, I asked her how did she know that no one lives here, she said "cause I own the place", I then asked her , well then you would know about the old car up the back, she did but it wasn't her's,
Anyway she rang the owner and said, that she had a fella her wanting to buy the old GT, she then hung up and said , I will get your name and number and the owner would contact you if he wanted to sell.
I asked if I could have a look while I was there, she said " oh ok then".
It was in very bad shape, no ID plate, chrome 12 slotter's, no interior, rust in the ussual place's, I couldn't get underneath to see if any of the original GT thing's to look out for were easy to see as the undergrowth and thorn's around it was just to hard.
The engine looked like a 302, but not certain, no shaker, as I was looking through the hole. but all in all it was in a bad way and missing a lot.
I had a feeling that even if it was a genuine GT that it was a SA Fairmont GT, but without ID it I couldn't be certain, but anyway I have never heard back from the owner.
I was speaking to the bloke that told me about it this week and he said that many people have tried to suss it out but he just won't sell it and won't do anything with it but let it sit there.
It has been sitting there for a very long time and people know about it, and it has had quite a few part's stolen from it over the yr's.
If indeed it is a genuine, it is such a shame.
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