XY GT-HO PHASE III
“The shaker heaved in the bonnet and the nose rose up even further from the road. The speedo needle went determinedly around the dial, and soon it was showing 145mph”
– Mel Nichols
It’s a fair bet that nobody at Ford imagined, on Wednesday May 12, 1971, when the first of just 300 Falcon XY GT-HO Phase IIIs rolled off the Broadmeadows production line, they had just launched the holy grail of Australian muscle cars.
At the time it was the fastest four-door production car on the planet and built out of necessity to satisfy CAMS regulations allowing it to compete on Australian racetracks.
And nobody in their right mind would have thought this latest Falcon-based muscle
