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Examples of "falcon_gtho_phase"
A high-performance
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
III was released in May 1971.
For cars over $4,100. Apart from a single BMW 2800 and a Holden Monaro the class consisted only of Ford
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
II.
The first ATCC race held at the circuit in 1973 was won by Allan Moffat driving a Ford XY
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
III for the Ford Works Team.
A Ford
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
III was the most expensive Australian vehicle sold at auction, selling for A$750,000. A previous sale had been for A$683,650.
As well as the 1968 outright win in the Holden Monaro, McPhee finished on the podium at Bathurst in 1963 (3rd) in a Ford Cortina Mk.I GT (the first year the race was run at Mount Panorama), 1965 (2nd) in a Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500, 1966 (3rd) in a Morris Cooper S, 1969 (2nd) in a XW Ford
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
I and 1970 (2nd) in a XW Ford
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
II.
During the 1970 Hardie-Ferodo 500 Roberts was involved in a sensational incident late in the race when, after losing control, he launched his Ford XW
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
II backwards over Skyline before tumbling down the hillside.
The Ford
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
III was built for homologation, looked almost identical to the GT and was a modified version of the Falcon GT built in 1971 with a heavily upgraded engine, a four-speed top-loader gearbox and Detroit locker nine inch differential. It was also equipped with special brakes and handling package, plus a fuel tank.
The homolgation specials reached their zenith with the Ford
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
III in 1971, a car which Allan Moffat used to defeat all opposition in the 1971 Bathurst enduro and remained the fastest four-door production sedan in the world until the introduction of the Lotus Carlton 19 years later, with a 6 cylinder engine.
, Tobin's car collection, on display in the gallery, comprised 15 cars. It included a Ford
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
III, a Valiant Charger E49 "Six Pack", a Holden Torana A9X, a Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona Competizione, and a Lamborghini Miura S previously owned by Twiggy, the English model, actress and singer.
Allan Moffat won his first Bathurst enduro leading home Bruce McPhee in a one-two result for the Ford Works Team and their Ford XW
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
II's. It was the fifth Phillip Island / Bathurst 500 victory for the factory team. Third, a lap behind the Fords, was Don Holland driving a Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1.
In 2010 Tander competed in the Touring Car Masters, driving a replica Ford XA
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
IV. She placed 5th in the series, having won the last race of Round 5, held at the Mount Panorama Circuit as a support category to the 2010 Bathurst 1000 in which husband Garth finished 3rd in a successful weekend for the couple.
Of greatest significance, the
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
III succeeded in an outright win at Bathurst in the 1971 Hardie-Ferodo 500 and also secured the 1973 Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC) title; in both instances the cars were driven by Allan Moffat.
The 1973 Australian Touring Car Championship was the 14th running of the Australian Touring Car Championship. It began at Symmons Plains on 5 March 1973 and ended at Warwick Farm after eight rounds. The series was won by Allan Moffat in a Ford
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
III.
The proposed models were a , 5.0 L V8 engined version of the Holden LJ Torana GTR XU-1, the Ford
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
IV powered by a 5.8 L V8 engine, and an uprated version of the Chrysler Valiant Charger fitted with a 4.3 L Hemi-6 engine.
Goss debuted at the Bathurst 500 in 1969 driving a McLeod Ford (with its distinctive yellow/black chequer windscreen strip) sponsored Ford Falcon GTHO, but Goss's co-driver Dennis Cribbin crashed the Falcon at Forrest Elbow. In 1970 John Goss posted the fastest lap during the Bathurst 500 in his XW
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
II. The following year Goss won two rounds of the Toby Lee Series at Oran Park against such opposition as Colin Bond and Fred Gibson.
Goss won the 1972 South Pacific Touring Car Series and the 1972 Sandown 250 endurance race, both in Series Production Ford XY
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
III's. He also put his Falcon on the front row of the grid at the 1972 Hardie-Ferodo 500, qualifying second fastest behind the Works GTHO of expat-Canadian Allan Moffat. Engine failure after splashing around for 24 wet laps ended Goss' race.
The 1970 Bathurst race was a 1–2 victory for the Ford works team with Allan Moffat winning his first Bathurst 500 in a Ford XW
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
II from team-mate Bruce McPhee whose car was much healthier but was holding back in the final laps following team orders. The Phase II GTHO Falcon's, while still using a 5.8 L V8 engine, were now using the Australian manufactured 351 "Cleveland" engine rather than the imported 351 Windsor engines.
1972 would be the final time the Improved Production cars would contest the ATCC. From 1973, CAMS introduced a new production based Group C touring car formula. Outright cars like the Ford Mustangs, Chevrolet Camaros, Norm Beechey's Holden Monaro and Ian Geoghegan's Ford XY
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
III would be replaced with production based Ford Falcon's and Holden Torana's. Many Improved Production cars would end up racing as Sports Sedans in the following years.
A race-bred version of the 3300 engine was also fitted to the LJ Torana GTR XU-1, producing well over . By now equipping the XU-1 with the 202-ci engine and larger CD-175 Zenith-Stromberg triple carburettors, as well as a new close-ratio M20 four-speed Australian-made transmission (commonly known as the Aussie 4-Speed and often incorrectly called an M21), this gave the nimble XU-1 the power boost it needed to seriously challenge the powerful Ford
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
III, which had won the 1971 Hardie-Ferodo 500 production-car endurance race held annually at Bathurst.
The following two years would see Moffat come into his own as one of Australia's most dominant race drivers, and the Falcon GTHO as an almost unbeatable car. For 1970, Ford Australia had made significant improvements to the Falcon XW GTHO Phase II over the previous year's model and Moffat, racing without a co-driver, took the car to two crushing victories in both the 1970 and 1971 Bathurst races, and also the 1970 Rothmans 250 Production Classic endurance race. In 1971 he became the first driver to lead the Bathurst 500 from start to finish while driving the famed Ford
Falcon
GTHO
Phase
III