1:18 Scale. Ian Geoghegan #10. Ford GTHO Super Falcon, 1972 Round 3 Winner Bathurst ATCC

1:18 Scale. Ian Geoghegan #10. Ford GTHO Super Falcon, 1972 Round 3 Winner Bathurst ATCC

There were only two Ford Falcon GT-HO’s ever built by the Ford Motor Company of Australia, that were not Phase I, II, III or IV’s – they were not even XW or XY’s. They were just GT-HO’s and were aptly code named the ‘Super Falcons’.
Born to win the Australian Touring Car Championship, they came with factory lightweight body shells, 620bhp fuel injected full house motors and parts you could only imagine. Al Turner and Howard Marsden mothered them, then John Wynne hand built each car in a closed section of Ford Special Vehicles. The cars were destined for Pete Geogeghan and Allan Moffat, in the Improved Production Racing category.
Work started on the project in absolute secrecy in early 1970. The cars started out in XW guise and eventually appeared in March 1971 in XY form, with Pete’s in the familiar Castrol colours and Moffat’s in Brambles Red. Most of the year was spent sorting them out, but more than once they proved they were the fastest cars on the track, but reliability was their problem. Even after the vast amounts of money and time, the original Super Falcons failed to deliver. Moffat would later pull the good bits off his Super Falcon and put them on the Trans Am he was also racing, in the Improved Production category. That was the end of his HO.
Only one GT-HO remained. At the end of 1971 Pete Geogeghan began spending serious money on his Super Falcon.
In 1972 at Bathurst, on Easter Monday, the effort would finally pay off. The ATCC Round 3 battle at Bathurst is still regarded as one of the greatest touring car races in Australian motor racing history.

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