Originally posted by: Ronstang
Originally posted by: Dead3ye
I'm biased. Check sig.
Nice car,
but it wouldn't even exist if it was not for Ford and the Mustang who invented the pony car and started the craze.
the Mustang was responsible for starting the Muscle car era in Australia....but it wasn't so much the car itself but rather the idea of the car.
At the time the Mustang was selling like crazy in the US in the mid 60's, Australia had no locally made V8 powered performance cars at all.
Shortly after the release of the 1966 Ford XR Falcon, a marketing executive by the name of Bill Bourke who was on loan from Ford America decided to put forth the idea of putting the Mustangs 289cu V8 in to the Ford Falcon...it was this idea that created the "Mustang bred" Falcon and the Falcon GT, which he was directly responsible for...he couldn't buy a Mustang locally so he decided to create one using the 4 door Falcon...and hence the mighty Falcon GT was born in 1967...220hp worth of V8 mustang running gear in a Fairmont sedan with racing stripes and other cool stuff.
It was supposed to be a limited run of 500 or so cars, but the proved so popular that another 500 were maded and the GT became a regular production model, right up to 1976 when Fuel prices, insurance companies and worst of all the Australian Government saw it killed off....until 1992 when it returned in the EB Falcon model range...incidently enought it was fitted with a warmed over 200kw 5 litre HO V8...from the Mustang GT...