# Mystery Car **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [November 24, 2008, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mystery-car/22486 "2008-11-24T13:20:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jr00101abc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e495f1/32.png) [@jr00101abc](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jr00101abc)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2008, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mystery-car/22486/1 "2008-11-24T13:20:54Z")
For those of you car people, who like a good muscle car, high up on your list might be a car, that you don’t know that much about; Believed widely to be a heavily modified 1979 Ford Falcon XB GT, the Mad Max V-8 Pursuit Special (no it’s not an Interceptor). Can anyone confirm what kind of car it was once and for all? ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mystery-car/22486/2 "2008-11-24T13:40:39Z")
According to some quick internet research the car in question was a “Ford Falcon XB sedan, 351 V8 engine, probably a 1974 model”. ---
**Author:** ![bscar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bscar/32/34_2.png) [@bscar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bscar)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mystery-car/22486/3 "2008-11-24T23:10:47Z")
the really good muscle cars came BEFORE 1973 😛 ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mystery-car/22486/4 "2008-11-24T23:17:33Z")
Does that include Australia, where the car in question originated? ---
**Author:** ![jr00101abc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e495f1/32.png) [@jr00101abc](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jr00101abc)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/mystery-car/22486/5 "2008-11-24T23:30:51Z")
I thought that it was a rather sharp looking vehicle, even the second car used in Mad Max 2 was still a nice car to look at, even if they had given it a bit of a ratty look, I have read articles that say that the original car, in which the blower was operable, could crank out over 600 horsepower, and that they had taken it out for a run one day, and ran out of road at 160 MPH; but I have yet to find anyone who has any kind of specs on the car, be it the belief that it was a Falcon, or a Crown Victoria(I thought this was a bit far out myself), but there have never been any kind of specs on the vehicle or motor, just beliefs and guesses.