Nice. I got the original Wheels magazine with the article. They clicked 140 mph in a GTHO. Phase 3. Must have been a nice straight stretch of road.
I want that mag apparently the mag was changed to read 104 for safety reasons is that true?
Peter
I need to go through some storage and I will see what I find. I was real passionate with all muscle cars from 1967 to 1973. My favouries were all American Hemis, Cudas, Chargers, Challengers and Aussie E49s. The Aussie Fords were also special to me because my Dad worked for Ford between 1970 and 1998.
The photo you have prompted some journos and politicians to clamp down on the supercar race between the big 3. The Monaros then went to Toranas, Chargers went from the mighty E49s to the less inspiring E55s and Ford canned the Phase 4 HOs. Apparently 4 were built and only 2 went out, one of which survives with a private collector in Qld. Funny thing was, about 50 of specially built 351 ci V8s were ready for the HOs so Ford decided to plonk them in some Fairlanes. There must have been some guys out there with some hot Fairlanes scratching their heads wondering why their cars had so much grunt.
My mate years ago had a HX 253 ute and that thing was stupidly fast for a 4.2 V8 we always thought it was a proto type or something special cause it would smoke 350 chevs but without pulling the motor down it was a guessing game so similar to your fairlane story awesome hey imagine having a phase 4 fairlane. Did your dad work on the production line how good watching these sick muscle cars coming down the line.
Peter
