This is a corner detail of the iconic Ford Falcon XY GT, one of the most lusted after cars ever to be built in Australia.
This is largely due to the legendary top of the range model, the GTHO Phase 3, which won Bathurst for Ford Australia and was touted as the fastest 4 door family sedan in the world.
Capable of a genuine 140 mph, the GTHO was fitted with a highly tuned version of the 351 cubic inch Cleveland V8 engine backed up by the might Top Loader TKO 4 speed manual transmission and the 9" rear axle and put out around 380hp, a good dose of power today and mind blowing for a 4 door sedan in 1971…
The ordinary GT had a slightly less edgy version of the same mechanicals and was a fast car in its own right, and rather more were built than the approximately 300 GTHO Phase 3 vehicles which were built…
In the muscle car boom of recent times the GTHO Phase 3 reached the dizzying heights of $700,000 and ordinary GT XYs topped $300,000 at auction…although values have fallen since the global financial crisis.

I took this photograph at the car show held in the outer Hobart suburb of Old Beach on the 12th of Feb 2012.
Shot on my Rolleicord V twin lens reflex medium format camera, which takes 6×6 centimetre photographs on 120 film.
Taken on Fuji Superia 100 film and scanned on my Kodak Professional PCD 4050 film scanner.
I originally took this as a wider view however one of the downsides of 120 film is that light strike at the margins is a danger if the film is not wound off tightly enough or is exposed to daylight which is too strong…and sadly this frame was affected.
I was able to crop tighter however and I think this recomposition works well, although I do try and compose in camera as much as possible and I am quite fond of photographs composed to take advantage of the square format of the Rollei…