Barn find! 1971 Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III to fetch in excess of $300,000

[Express]

Barn find! 1971 Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III to fetch in excess of $300,000


https://www.caradvice.com.au/887292/...ess-of-300000/







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[Rallye Sport]

Another one to watch vicariously from the couch...
Who put the wheels on the wrong way around?

[Crazy Dazz]

Where exactly are all these Barns?

[Express]

Originally Posted by Crazy Dazz

Where exactly are all these Barns?

Put some red soil through a sieve into a bucket then lightly dust.

There are many different ways to detail a car for sale.




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[Yellow_Festiva]

Originally Posted by Express

Put some red soil through a sieve into a bucket then lightly dust.

There are many different ways to detail a car for sale.

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No joke but that's what they do with the 'dirty' potatoes they sell at the supermarkets...

[Tassie f100]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

No joke but that's what they do with the 'dirty' potatoes they sell at the supermarkets...

Where did you get that furphy from?.Unwashed spuds are exactly that,unwashed, but sometimes brushed and other times,just as they come out of the ground.

[hayseed]

Originally Posted by Tassie f100

Where did you get that furphy from?.Unwashed spuds are exactly that,unwashed, but sometimes brushed and other times,just as they come out of the ground.

That maybe the case in Tassie! But Not on the mainland..

Over the last 30 odd yrs I've loaded out of a few Potato Farms/Packing Houses. & More often than Not the Brushed Spuds are Washed One Sprinkled with Dirt as the go up an Elavator. i even know of One place that Imported Dirt in that was a Different Colour to the Soil that the Spuds grew In..

Mods,Sorry for the Topic Hijack..

[Mulva]

Originally Posted by Crazy Dazz

Where exactly are all these Barns?

Who knew the Amish were so into steel muscle cars?

[Yellow_Festiva]

Originally Posted by Mulva

Who knew the Amish were so into steel muscle cars?

No drivetrain, electrics etc. You may be onto something? Perhaps it was horse drawn lol

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[wodahs]

i see steal termites are now getting in to centre consoles
so its been heavily modified and no driveline
love the front mags on back to front almost makes you think , if they dont know what their doing do they know what their talking bout or selling

[jpd80]

Originally Posted by wodahs

i see steal termites are now getting in to centre consoles
so its been heavily modified and no driveline
love the front mags on back to front almost makes you think , if they dont know what their doing do they know what their talking bout or selling

They're either real potato heads or the photo is deliberate to make you act a certain way when talking to them....
We did similar in training lectures, put deliberate typo or two on page one, certain types of personalities are
compelled to tell you that you've made a mistake......

[ozpacman]

What's the bet down the track, that an amazingly coincidental set of circumstances come together in space and time, and the 'original' engine is located in a dusty old shed somewhere!

[Vesper Martini]

Originally Posted by ozpacman

What's the bet down the track, that an amazingly coincidental set of circumstances come together in space and time, and the 'original' engine is located in a dusty old shed somewhere!

Info provided after the sale of the car of course

[cheap]

Looks a bit like Geoghegan's Super XY

[Citroënbender]

A barn find, smashed up with a baseball bat.

As someone who chooses to be Australian, this convergence annoys and disappoints me.

[mondeomatureguy]

Barn find where was the barn? Alice Springs? they could have at least left the engine in the car.

I remember once Allan Moffat said when he went to a Ford Day at the Ford factory in Victoria.
I haven't seen so many XY GTHOs in one place which is funny because Ford only built 300 of them".

[jaydee]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

A barn find, smashed up with a baseball bat.

As someone who chooses to be Australian, this convergence annoys and disappoints me.

Haha, yes, should have been a cricket bat in a chook shed

[Express]

The way I see it with the guards flared like they are the front rims & tyres are as per the last setup and the rears would be even wider.

Maybe it was used as some type of circuit racer.

I can remember back in the early 80's seeing a few street cars including XY's with flared guards and an extremely wide footprint similar to this car.





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[DJR-351]

Originally Posted by Express

The way I see it with the guards flared like they are the front rims & tyres are as per the last setup and the rears would be even wider.

Maybe it was used as some type of circuit racer.

I can remember back in the early 80's seeing a few street cars including XY's with flared guards and an extremely wide footprint similar to this car.
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Agree, the (big) rears would most likely have been sold of to another racer and a couple of skinny's fitted to roll it around.

The video mentions it's been raced and heavily modified over it's lifetime, plus there's a few 'ANDRA' stickers on it, it is what it is.

[Citroënbender]

The fact of these getting maximum publicity is good and bad. I can think of a few in years past where cars were pinched from sheds and paddocks then sold - now not so easy. Yet the temptation must be ramping up for all the people who know of “something” and think they might have a claim to possession. I worry about one (non Ford) race car a friend has tucked away in Sydney’s west; it would be a prime target...

[wackyv8]

"1971 Ford Falcon GTHO XY Phase 3
Closes: 3d 4h 40m

$236,209
The reserve price has not been reached "

[DJR-351]

From back in her glory days......

[jaydee]

Side pipes, flared guards, huge wheels and a big bonnet scoop, all adds up to a tough muscle car. Love to be able to read the placard in the show stand.

[Rallye Sport]

Wow, stand corrected on the wheels.
Its got more of a sports sedan flavor than a drag racer too me.
Looks like it was more of a tough streeter though.

[Dr Terry]

It's a magneto.

Dr Terry

[Hulsty]

My mate knows the car, his ex misses (owners) smashed it up with a baseball bat and took the tags off it. He bought them back, recent passed away and the sons are selling up. Apparently had a few cars down there.

[DJR-351]

Originally Posted by Hulsty

My mate knows the car, his ex misses (owners) smashed it up with a baseball bat and took the tags off it. He bought them back, recent passed away and the sons are selling up. Apparently had a few cars down there.

Yeah you can see it's been vandalised in the pics on the auction site, dented roof/panels, smashed lights and busted glass all over the floor in the back seating area.......sad!

[Mulva]

She probably gave him the "Car or me" ultimatum...and he chose wisely

[Crazy Dazz]

So what exactly is so special about this shell?
Whatever it was, its been bastardised, then raped and pillaged.

It might be a solid body, a good basis for an XY project, but that doesn't make it worth $300k.
If the post above is to be believed then it's had the tags removed, which makes the car unregisterable.

If, based on the shock tower, you can confirm that it was originally a HO, so what. It's not one now.
If you buy that car, and then acquire all the parts to rebuild it as a HO.
And I take a nondescript XY and add exactly the same parts and work, then what's the difference.

Don't get we wrong, I understand the rarity and iconic nature of a genuine HO. My point is that it isn't any more. Some idiot destroyed it.

[Express]

Originally Posted by Crazy Dazz

If the post above is to be believed then it's had the tags removed, which makes the car unregisterable.

I don't know how it works in Perth but I had the tags stolen from my Torana here in NSW and the car was still able to be registered as they only needed the Chassis Number and the engine number was also recorded.

Maybe because it was just a Torana they didn't care





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