My father who is still alive, was the original owner of the so called " Jeff Thompson " Gtho phase 3 , he also owned a white Xy 4×4 HE WAS a 23 yr old Farmer. Now Retired Minister of Religion.
151mph...pffffssssttt. In practice for the 1971 Bathurst race, David MacKay saw 162mph with a "loose" qualifying engine and it was still climbing before hitting the brakes. Fred Gibsons car was even looser, with the famous hand grenade motor and he took the front spoiler off and saw over 165mph with a clear run out of Forest Elbow. But of course the tighter engine went in for the race. When you took the front spoiler off, at over 150 you were getting 1/3 of a turn of nothing in the steering, it got so light on the front end. The wind would catch it and take you from one side of the track to the other. A gust caught Spencer Martin and he got air under the front wheels coming over the hump. He ended up 400m down the escape road to town. He was not impressed. They were men driving those things back then.
XY Falcons are nice but the GT 351 Falcon has made all 6 cylinder Utes and wagons and sedans very very pricey. But still has a very beautiful grill. And the uTe was beautiful
This is the holy grail of all Aussie cars ,not just Fords..Nothing else comes even close .
Enjoyed that episode!
The owner of the GT HO Ph3 says he's never going to sell it but is also worried about clocking up the miles. Just drive the bloody thing
he is a sook
love the xy gt phase 111 can only dream about ever owning one
George P we have one it’s the best
Phase one hundred and eleven?... Phase III * (It's a Roman numeral. They're capital i's)
My father who is still alive, was the original owner of the so called " Jeff Thompson " Gtho phase 3 , he also owned a white Xy 4×4 HE WAS a 23 yr old Farmer. Now Retired Minister of Religion.
Were all the 4X4 utes made in Brisbane? as i remember seeing a lot of them in the yard on Kingsford Smith Drive, Meandah.
151mph...pffffssssttt. In practice for the 1971 Bathurst race, David MacKay saw 162mph with a "loose" qualifying engine and it was still climbing before hitting the brakes. Fred Gibsons car was even looser, with the famous hand grenade motor and he took the front spoiler off and saw over 165mph with a clear run out of Forest Elbow. But of course the tighter engine went in for the race. When you took the front spoiler off, at over 150 you were getting 1/3 of a turn of nothing in the steering, it got so light on the front end. The wind would catch it and take you from one side of the track to the other. A gust caught Spencer Martin and he got air under the front wheels coming over the hump. He ended up 400m down the escape road to town. He was not impressed. They were men driving those things back then.
XYS ARE NICE
XY Falcons are nice but the GT 351 Falcon has made all 6 cylinder Utes and wagons and sedans very very pricey. But still has a very beautiful grill. And the uTe was beautiful
Grille*
XA Falcon could have continued XY's legacy with the phase 4 if it wasn't for the supercar scare? even XB could have continued as phase 5 or phase 6?
on the hume high way,travelling at one hundred and forty five miles per hour.that's what these cars were built to do.
Hoey is a hoey .
The King