Curators at the National Museum may well be gnashing their teeth at having missed one of the motoring finds of the year, which this week fell fortuitously into the hands of a private Canberra car collector.
The extraordinary, priceless part of Australia's motoring heritage is one of the original London-Sydney marathon vehicles, a 1968 5-litre V8 Ford Falcon GT, taken off the assembly line at Broadmeadows and custom-built to compete in one of the world's last great transcontinental motor races.
