THE final road-registrable Ford Falcon has sold at auction for $81,500 – a relative bargain for what will live on as a significant slice of Australian history.

The Ford FGX Falcon XR6 sedan sold on Saturday isn’t actually the final car to roll off the Broadmeadows production line – the true last car doesn’t have a Vehicle Identification Number and therefore can never be registered. However, both wear the same Kinetic blue hue.

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Instead, within half an hour, two real-world bidders had shown they had deeper pockets than rivals online to shell out a collective $353,000 for the cars, with Ford donating the proceeds to Broadmeadows- and Geelong-based community projects, including a robotics program for schools.

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GT-F build number 001 sold for $157,600, while GT-F build number 500 – the final one, sold for $236,100, with a combined total of $393,700

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The XR6 Sprint that sold for $122,000, along with a Winter White XR6 Turbo Ute that sold for $81,000, both went to Sunbury Ford dealer John Bradbury.

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Ford offered 2000 tickets to the invitation-only event that included a static display of significant Falcon models. Attendees could also have a photo taken with some of the last 10 cars to roll off the Broadmeadows production line on October 7.