ME AND MY BROTHER WOKE UP ONE SUNDAY MORNING IN 2017 AND WENT, “LET’S BUILD A RACE CAR”
IT’S BECOMING abundantly clear that sevens are the new eights in the street-car scene, as Australia’s quickest streeters continually up the ante. Sean Anthony’s 1500rwhp XD Falcon is one of the newest members of the club, knocking out blistering timeslips at the ragged edge of Barra development.
The XD began as a spur-of-the-moment thing. “Me and my brother woke up one Sunday morning in 2017 and went, ‘Let’s build a race car,’” he says. “We couldn’t afford an XW or XY, so the next best thing was an XD Falcon. We went on Gumtree and found this car for sale in Canberra, about two ads down. The thing was insane; it had not one ding or bit of rust.”
While they’d found the perfect specimen, actually clinching it proved trickier. “The guy
