1972 SUNDAY 25th JUNE -The Sydney newspaper 'THE SUN-HERALD' front page HEADLINES in BOLD PRINT an article written by Evan Green after his visit to Ford Special Vehicles at lot 6 to learn about the XA FALCON GTHO's being built for Allan Moffat and Fred Gibson That was the start of the demise of the Fastest and best competitive FALCON GT-HO ever built It would be the pinnacle of the Handling Option aka High Output package. Within 30 days after much consideration it was all over for the FORD XA FALCON GT-HO PHASE IV the media announced it was axed on the 1st August
From 1973 there will no longer be the requirement for 200 purpose built cars to be be sold road registered for CAMS Homologation for racing mainly in the Bathurst enduro
public) - sudden end to all SuperCar production for the start of July in 1972, yet only a bare week after the lone article by Evan Green was printed as a headline in a single paper in one state of Australia – and despite the fact that the problems and public concerns over such cars and the ever growing road toll had been well recorded in multiple mainstream papers, by different journalists as far back as 1967. Evan Green was to become the unfair focus for a problem – and ultimate solution that had actually been growing steadily since 1967.
In late 1971, well prior to the Evan Green article being published in Sydney in mid 1972, a magazine had shown a Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III being driven (legally) at over 225 km/h (140 mph) on a Victorian public highway.[4] at the time, Victoria had no maximum speed limit, so there was technically no fault in this as long as the drivers were driving safely in the eyes of the police. But concerns about potential public and government backlash shown by the publishers at the high, but not illegal speed of the car on the open highway in 1971 – saw the magazine photo actually altered to show a more publicly acceptable speed of slightly over 100 mph.
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