FALCON XA GT-HO PHASE IV
&XA POLICE HO SUPERCAR VARIANTS         

Bill Santuccione   Former Repco engineer before he and the team  moved to Ford's special vehicles division at Lot 6 under Al Turner and later Howard Marsden. Bill was  in charge of the "Top secret" QC BLUEPRINT mini production line at RACEWORKS FOOTSCRAY  for the HO PHASE 4 racing teams engine development  the stillborn Phase IV program.  Bill's brother John also worked there both the sole team.   As a test mule Bill's "COMPANY CAR" was the RED PEPPER  FALCON GT XA with a sunroof  powered by many Phases of the developing the HO PHASE 4 engine as well as bedding the brakes for the Ford Special Vehicle race cars and  some rally cars there were numerous changes in racing cams and various tweaks tested on the car which also did the hard yards at You Yang Fords proving ground. There was also experiences with the HO Powered motors and different configaration of parts  between Broadmeadows and Geelong on the Geelong Highway. Bill claims the HO 4 was a far superior car to the superceeded HO Phase 3 it could out corner the XY by up to 15 mph faster on the Special Globe 15 ' wheels which were superior and stronger than the steel 14' Wheels Howard Marsden referred to Bill's car as the Prototype 4 to John Wright in the 1987 SuperFord No 1 Winter Edition page 27 that translates to XA 4