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

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.”