Bernie Roeschmann’s 1967 Ford XR Falcon

Bernie brought the pro-street styled XR to Street Machine Summernats 35 as one of the 30+ unveil cars at the show, and as soon as the covers lifted people knew this was a special build. There’s something epic about seeing an iconic Aussie muscle car sitting with a mega phat stance, finished to a better-than-factory look, and that is exactly what Bernie’s XR delivers. 

The big blue-oval sedan isn’t quite an immediate standout like say, Timmy’s VL - but that’s really not the point, either. It’s definitely a car you could spend some extra time looking at, and finding plenty of extra little details that you might have missed on first glance. The interior features some epic custom carbon fibre highlights and trim, and the exterior has been meticulously finished in a custom Sage Gold PPG paint job. 

Surely the coolest part of the car is the donk that lies up front - with direct family lineage to some of Ford’s most iconic race cars. The Gurney Eagle-headed 372ci Windsor is as rare as it gets for Ford donks, as you’d imagine the fella that built and worked on the GT40 engines in the late 60s stopped making and selling go-fast-bits a while ago. 

What started life as a 351 Windsor has been stroked out to 372 cubes, and nowadays even houses a few Chevy bits internally. The trumpets are also a custom piece, designed to suit the Weber injection. Close lookers will notice they actually bolt straight to the head - there’s no intake manifold to be found here. Our favourite part? They’re not muzzled up by some foam filters either - and we reckon it’d make for a bloody fantastic noise on song.

Underneath you’ll find RRS custom suspension up the front with a Motorfab rear single leaf slider set-up in the back, along with a Billet custom nine inch differential. The cars stopping power is thanks to some pretty nifty Wildwood brakes all around which sit behind some gorgeous RC Comp wheels wrapped in some soft Mickey Thompson rubber. 

We reckon it’s one of the raddest looking pro-street/elite level builds we’ve seen in a while (I mean, come on - as if you don’t wanna hear those trumpets on song!) and thought it was worth a quick extra look. As always, Meguiar’s MotorEx brings out some of the wildest builds and we’re already excited for next year.