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Posted: **Sun Aug 19, 2012 9:10 am**

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These are awesome.

Posted: **Sun Aug 19, 2012 9:14 am**

Steve, it was Peter Brock in the 66 FIA Corvette,he went over as a guest driver and enjoyed the car very much.the car was subsequently imported into Australia and JB is driving it this weekend for the Melbourne based owner.

Posted: **Sun Aug 19, 2012 9:22 am**

Steve Holmes wrote:Wow, I love this photo. This must have been very early 1974? It was painted blue later in the year wasn't it? Pretty sure it was blue when it won Bathurst.

Gossy broke with tradition when he changed from his normal Tru-Blu colour to yellow for 1973. but he was unlucky at that years Hardie-Ferodo 1000 and the car was rebuilt for 74 and changed back to the usual blue.

Posted: **Sun Aug 19, 2012 11:48 pm**

The one and only XA GTHO Ph4 ever built.
Its owner is a member of The GT Club Inc.
The car featured on our newsletter front cover a few years ago.

This is a for sale advert for it in the newspaper in 1985...
It had a colour change in its early life but is now back as it was built.
You will also notice that an AC unit had been fitted which incidently required the HO4 badge on the dash to be removed.

The XA GTHO dash badge....

Posted: **Mon Aug 20, 2012 12:33 am**

[quote="Ellis"]The one and only XA GTHO Ph4 ever built.
Its owner is a member of The GT Club Inc.
The car featured on our newsletter front cover a few years ago.

This is a for sale advert for it in the newspaper in 1985...
It had a colour change in its early life but is now back as it was built.
You will also notice that an AC unit had been fitted which incidently required the HO4 badge on the dash to be removed.

Wow - what would that be worth these days. Some one has a great investment there. Does he take it out much Ellis or keep it hidden away ? Mike

Posted: **Mon Aug 20, 2012 5:25 am**

Ellis wrote:The one and only XA GTHO Ph4 ever built.
Its owner is a member of The GT Club Inc.
The car featured on our newsletter front cover a few years ago.

This is a for sale advert for it in the newspaper in 1985...
It had a colour change in its early life but is now back as it was built.
You will also notice that an AC unit had been fitted which incidently required the HO4 badge on the dash to be removed.

The XA GTHO dash badge....

Would love to see more ads from that old newspaper! Ellis, you say the one and only XA Phase 4, weren't there 3 or 4 built?

Posted: **Mon Aug 20, 2012 6:09 am**

Steve, you are correct , there was more than one, four sounds more like it.No thanks to Evan Green.$6000 would buy one ...then.

Posted: **Mon Aug 20, 2012 6:30 am**

Whilst there were 4 XA Phase IV’s built the other 3 were built up at the race factory , so this was the only one to go down the production line and the only one to receive it’s correct factory GTHO I.D. plate.

Posted: **Mon Aug 20, 2012 6:54 am**

John McKechnie wrote:Steve, you are correct , there was more than one, four sounds more like it.No thanks to Evan Green.$6000 would buy one ...then.

The 3 race [B]prototypes[/B] were std XAGT's pulled from the production line and
built/modified at Mahoneys Rd. They had XAGT compliance plates.
The Green car was the only XA GTHO ever to go down the production line and plated as such by Ford.....so one....the Calypso Green one.

The car makes few appearances, it was the subject of a resto last year which was covered by some magazine. The long time owner is very private but has made the odd unannounced visit to the monthly GT Club Inc meetings.

Posted: **Mon Aug 20, 2012 7:04 am**

Parnelli, Ellis, thanks for clearing that up.

Posted: **Mon Aug 20, 2012 7:26 am**

Only the one with this on plate

Posted: **Mon Aug 20, 2012 7:32 am**

Wow, that one line speaks volumes!

Posted: **Wed Apr 17, 2013 4:36 am**

Rascal wrote:with Further regard to Bryan thompsons Pic Of the lime green XA Falcon Coupe & other comments,

OLD MATE, Barry Lloyd, an Ashburton Earthmoving contractor, more often know as "BJ"; may have won the NZ GTX championship in 1978 with this car.
Race prepared by Timaru Guru, Wayne Murdoch, the car certainly figured well in all the points & placings in probably 2 seasons.

BJ, always the consistant driver , became a very much admired & liked, competitor.

Teretonga was his pick of the south island circuits ,where; the long front straight suited the legs of the falcon.

He had also Competed in the "villa maria 300" at Manfield, 1977 ? with this car, along with fellow ashburtonians , Rod Mclrea & Russ Haines [ X Robbie Franecievic Rx2 -capella coupe] at the same event.
Also at Races at Baypark & pukekoe on one or two ocassions during the GTX series.

Posted: **Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:54 am**

Geeee was Barry only 41 when he past , I remember him well , the green Falcon , seemed very big time in those days , Wayne;s car was also fast also [noddy] If i remember right Barry was a hard doer, I was about 18 yr old , Barry always a happy go chap... & then there was Inky he had a go , in an xagt ....... out of the SI guys Wayne extracted the best of these cars .......Know doubt about that

Posted: **Sat May 18, 2013 5:39 am**

Hopefully some of these cars might be on display at Lakeside in July.

Posted: **Sat May 18, 2013 7:40 am**

Grant Sprague wrote:Geeee was Barry only 41 when he past , I remember him well , the green Falcon , seemed very big time in those days , Wayne;s car was also fast also [noddy] If i remember right Barry was a hard doer, I was about 18 yr old , Barry always a happy go chap... & then there was Inky he had a go , in an xagt ....... out of the SI guys Wayne extracted the best of these cars .......Know doubt about that

John Christie still has his XA GT which of course was the one that Inks drove for him. He also spent quite a bit of time looking after BJ too.

Posted: **Sat May 18, 2013 7:56 am**

kiwi285 wrote:Hopefully some of these cars might be on display at Lakeside in July.

Lets hope that they get asked to bring them. Have not heard that Bowdens have been asked to bring anything yet.

Posted: **Wed Aug 13, 2014 7:41 pm**

Jim Richards is racing the coupe in the "Pool 200" at Manfield. I think Jerry Clayton was owner at time. The car is a genuine RPO83. I bought the car in 1980 as a road car and for the first few years I raced it I used to drive it to the race meeting but after breaking gearbox input shaft at Bay Park I started to modify it bit by bit and trailer it to meetings. I have raced it in quite a few different classes over the years and still give it a few runs at Auckland Car Club meetings at Pukekohe and Hampton Downs. Phil Schubert

Posted: **Wed Aug 13, 2014 8:34 pm**

Phil- was this Craigys car before you?
Its always great to see your car at race meetings still being used.
Craigs black one still just sits and sits .

Posted: **Wed Aug 13, 2014 9:19 pm**

Phil wrote:Jim Richards is racing the coupe in the "Pool 200" at Manfield. I think Jerry Clayton was owner at time. The car is a genuine RPO83. I bought the car in 1980 as a road car and for the first few years I raced it I used to drive it to the race meeting but after breaking gearbox input shaft at Bay Park I started to modify it bit by bit and trailer it to meetings. I have raced it in quite a few different classes over the years and still give it a few runs at Auckland Car Club meetings at Pukekohe and Hampton Downs. Phil Schubert

Thanks Phil, thats great info.

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