
Ford Falcon does purple burnout
Australians are good at being a bit mental; a theory artfully substantiated by Gary Myers at the Summernats muscle car festival in Canberra.
During the burnout battle at this year's four-day-long event, he fitted a set of purple tyres to his redonculously tuned 1972 Ford Falcon XA Coupe. Then sacrificed them to the god of awesome.
Now get some purple haze all in your eyes.
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