“I think it is actually easier to drive than a modern car and I think overall driving the older vehicles has made me a better driver.” “I have a bit of a passion for older cars and have researched them a bit from car magazines,” she said. Maddy said she found the vehicle quite easy to drive. “We have all worked on the vehicle together too so it holds a lot of memories.” “I like that the vehicle has lots of room and we can all go together on car runs,” Maddy said. “It also has had the dash replaced with a Mustang dash and the tyres have been changed.”īruce said Maddy would often take the car down to the beach with her friends “piled” in the back bench seat.
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“Maddy bought a full roll of the original interior material and she plans on also making a couple of cushions out of it. “We have done a bit to it including reupholstering the seats and door cards by Squizzy’s Upholstery director Taylor Fry,” he said. “She told me what it was and that one day when she grew up she would have a horse and dogs and her car would need room for them.”īruce said everybody thought Maddy was joking at the time, but she never waivered. “She knew I had room in the backyard because I had sold some of my other vehicles, but I just thought why would she want a station wagon in the first place. “I told her, if she could name it then she could have it,” he said. When she was 13 years old, Mount Gambier resident Maddy Potter spotted a turquoise-coloured 1966 Ford Falcon XR 500 station wagon for sale in car-yard window.įalling in love with it at first sight around five years ago, Maddy’s dad Bruce put his daughter to the test when he asked her to name the make and model of the rustic-looking car.
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