GT351 Falcon Passion | Australia
The history of the Ford Falcon GT is a 6 part 1998 video documentary on the Australian Ford Falcon GT & GTHO (phases 1-4), its success on the showroom and at Mount Panorama.
Includes interviews with Ford personnel, racing celebrities, and rare archive footage.
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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. With the Series Production class being replaced by the new Group C Touring Car class in 1973, Goss was the first driver to develop and race the new Ford Falcon XA GT Hardtop.
Unlike Series Production, the new Group C rules allowed considerable modifications. Goss obtained sponsorship from Shell and Max McLeod, a prominent Ford dealer in Rockdale, New South Wales — known for his “Horn cars” — as well as obtaining factory assistance from Ford Australia, who provided Goss with purpose-built XA racing chassis. Goss was actually the first to race the XA Hardtop in the 1973 ATCC, even before the Works team who used a modified Phase III GTHO and didn’t make the switch to the Hardtop until the Endurance races later in the year.
Goss and Kevin Bartlett teamed up for the 1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 at Bathurst and qualified on pole position with a time of 2:33.4 (it was to be Goss’ only pole at Bathurst) ahead of the GTR-XU1 Holden Torana of Peter Brock and Doug Chivas. Goss started and built up a good lead which was kept until he was involved in a crash at The Cutting which damaged his front end.
The Falcon suffered radiator damage which later caused its retirement on lap 110 of the now 163 lap race (prior to 1973 race distance was 500 miles and ran only 130 laps. The pair returned to Bathurst for the 1974 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 in the same car — repainted from yellow to blue after losing Shell as their major sponsor — and proved to have the reliability needed to last through a race marred by driving rain, finishing first. To celebrate the victory, Ford Australia released a limited edition XB Falcon Hardtop in 1975 called the John Goss Special. Actual production numbers of these cars were never released by Ford, but estimates range anywhere between 260 and 800 — they are now considered collectible.
Australia’s Finest Road Car: Ford Falcon GT 351 XY HO Phase III in Longford, Tasmania, Australia, from the videogame rFactor, Bathurst Legends 1972 mod. track is modified to hear the engine 100%, car is modified to change gears like a real classic car (very slow), and a few other tweaks. Not too much power on this beast, about 480 hp, a bit more than the original HO, Australia’s Finest Moto Car, geared for 260 max speed on this track (240 original).
Some nice race footage from Eastern Creek, of one of the best GT’s going around.
Quickest time to date 10.7 making it the fastest manual XY GT in Australia.
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Two-time ARC âAussie Carâ V8 champion Dave Thompson having fun in his GT in the Australian Rally Championship classic competition.
Awesome to see this 1970’s muscle car handling the dirt roads.
Old school driving skills required to keep this beast on the road.
In nicely unmolested condition, this Cobra has build number 361 and remains just as it left the factory, still with the original 302 motor and FMX auto transmission. The engine was reconditioned in 1998 to run unleaded and has done just 5,000 kms since. The car is now showing 178,953 kms on the clock, believed original. A quantity of spares are available by separate negotiation, including a water pump, driver’s doorskin, front suspension parts and hoses etc. To be sold with history and an owner’s manual.
Ford supplied just two Cobras to each of their premium dealers and all 400 cars sold out within days. The Cobra was a very healthy performer and took on the mighty A9X Toranas in the 1978 Touring Car Championship and surviving examples have become cherished collector’s items over the years.
The Cobra is up for auction at Shannons Auctions
Lot 15 – 2013 Shannons Sydney Spring Classic Auction.
DATE/TIME: 21 October 2013 / 7pm
LOCATION: 65 Reserve Road, St Leonards, NSW
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.
With the Series Production class being replaced by the new Group C Touring Car class in 1973, Goss was the first driver to develop and race the new Ford Falcon XA GT Hardtop. Unlike Series Production, the new Group C rules allowed considerable modifications. Goss obtained sponsorship from Shell and Max McLeod, a prominent Ford dealer in Rockdale, New South Wales — known for his “Horn cars” — as well as obtaining factory assistance from Ford Australia, who provided Goss with purpose-built XA racing chassis.
Goss was actually the first to race the XA Hardtop in the 1973 ATCC, even before the Works team who used a modified Phase III GTHO and didn’t make the switch to the Hardtop until the Endurance races later in the year. Goss and Kevin Bartlett teamed up for the 1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 at Bathurst and qualified on pole position with a time of 2:33.4 (it was to be Goss’ only pole at Bathurst) ahead of the GTR-XU1 Holden Torana of Peter Brock and Doug Chivas. Goss started and built up a good lead which was kept until he was involved in a crash at The Cutting which damaged his front end. The Falcon suffered radiator damage which later caused its retirement on lap 110 of the now 163 lap race (prior to 1973 race distance was 500 miles and ran only 130 laps.
The pair returned to Bathurst for the 1974 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 in the same car — repainted from yellow to blue after losing Shell as their major sponsor — and proved to have the reliability needed to last through a race marred by driving rain, finishing first. To celebrate the victory, Ford Australia released a limited edition XB Falcon Hardtop in 1975 called the John Goss Special. Actual production numbers of these cars were never released by Ford, but estimates range anywhere between 260 and 800 — they are now considered collectible.
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