Metric

Most XA GT’s had 7,000rpm tachometers.

Metric

And, in a carry over from the XW and XY’s, some XA GT’s had 8,000rpm tachometers.

Metric

All well and good, except, there were some other subtle differences. XA GTs featured a 140mph speedometer.

Thorn Red 2

Perhaps the most famous, and continuing the success carried over from racing the XW and XY, was Allan Moffat who drove some quite awesome looking hardtops at Bathurst.

This is the car Allan Moffat drove in the 1975 Bathurst race.



And this is the XB hardtop that is privately owned.



The car is a 1975 XB Falcon 500 hardtop, fitted with a 302ci Cleveland V8, three speed automatic trans, and factory ordered GT/GS options - dash, steering wheel, bonnet, grille and rear wing.

Thorn Red

As the inventors of the Australian muscle car with the GT Falcon, Ford were very keen to use the GT as its weapon of choice in the hard fought battles of the Australian Touring Car Championship and Series Production racing. Visible success in these motorsports boosted sales and marketability of GTs and Fords in general. While it can be argued that the Phase cars, in all their forms, were perhaps the most successful at this, the later racing hardtops of the seventies were perhaps equally as visible.

The stillborn XA Phase4 was developed as a four door homologation racing car, and it was to be followed by the Phase5 which was to be based on the hardtop chassis. There were several good reasons for progressing to the hardtop, most notably that its was over an inch lower in windscreen height than the four door, and the rear wings were bulged - adding three inch extra width to a hardtops - to accomodate much wider racing rubber.


The hardtops then fought Ford’s racing battles through the decade of the seventies, from 1973 to 1979. The teams racing them received factory support for 1973 only and then they were basically on their own, and facing fierce competition from the V8 powered Holden Toranas, which were smaller, lighter and more nimble. It is great credit to the teams that the hardtops triumphed in 1973, 1974 and 1977 at Bathurst, and brought us the driving excitement of Allan Moffat, John Goss, Kevin Bartlett, Murray Carter and Dick Johnson.

EL GT

The three EL GT’s together:- Navy Blue, Sparkling Burgundy and Heritage Green.

EL GT

Navy Blue EL GT

EL GT

Heritage Green EL GT

EL GT

271 EL GT’s were built.

248 were for the Australian market and 22 were for export.

156 were Sparkling Burgundy in colour, code B5. 14 of those were for export.

63 were heritage Green in colour, code E3. 5 of those were for export.

52 were Navy Blue in colour, code N9. 3 of those were for export.

EL GT

Factory shots

EL GT

Numbered door badge.

EL GT

Leather covered owners manual.

EL GT

Each car came with an individually numbered print.

EL GT

Each car had a serialised ID plate.

EL GT

EB GT

265 EB GT Falcons were built.

250 were for the Australian market and 15 were for export.
109 were Black Pearl in colour, code J4. 4 of those were for export.
88 were Cardinal Red in colour, code G5. 6 of those were for export.
68 were Cobalt Blue in colour, code C9. 5 of those were for export.

Key Fob

EB GT’s came with serialised key fobs that tied in with the car’s number.

EB GT

More factory transformation pics.

EB GT

Normal EB Falcons were delivered to Tickford for modification.

EB GT Brochure

EB GT Brochure