Just to add HO 004 is 1 of 3 XAGT’s taken off the production line and prepared for Allan Moffat at Mahoney's road. The compliance plate isn’t stamped as a HO.
At least Chrysler Australia got there supercar out the door a few days before the newspaper article. The mighty 1972 VH Valiant Charger E49 with 11 purpose build Bathurst Specials. A good friend of mine owned the only Lime Green one build years ago. There was never going to be a 340 / 4 speed Charger build for the race track way too heavy on the nose. Considering a Balaced & Blue printed 265 cubic inch , 6 cylinder Hemi with triple Webbers was rumoured to be pushing 335 hp. Better than anything Chrysler USA could build. The only Mopar engine in history factory rated road registered to push way more than 1 hp per cubic inch. Cheers Louis Kats 👍 Real Shame the Phase IV never made it. The XA looks 100 more beautiful than the boxy XY by a country mile. Once the XA Hardtop's were released there was going to be a Phase V. Real Shame
Saw an interesting video the other day about the Charger 6...an abandoned project TRUCK Engine that Chrysler US couldn't get to work properly...So Aussie Chrysler got them to send over the prototype and fixed all the issues
but those 340 Valiants they were testing were way quicker in a straight line than the hemi 6, ford xys couldn't keep up with the hemi 6, so the xa had no hope against a mopar v8 and im pretty sure the test vehicles were utes
@waddney4121 yes in a straight line etc but through the corners the V8 charger experience alot of under steer and scrub & prematurely go through tyres , yes maybe quicker but too many pit stops for tyres & fuel. Hence the superiority of the Hemi.
It was a tragedy that the Phase 4 never came out considering a couple of years later the V8 Toranas came out and more people were killed or seriously injured hooning in one of those than a Falcon
Evan Green's front page article was the ONE killer.................... why does this doco repeat itself multiple times............could have been 4 minutes.
Ford Australia ended up selling the Phase 4’s to the public anyway. What happened was the Australian government said that if Ford proceeded to sell the Phase 4 they would stop buying their vehicles for government use. The manufacture of cars for the government was worth more money than 300 phase 4s. So anyway Ford Australia had this massive stockpile of engines, gearboxes, diffs basically they’d had everything to go. The green calypso XAGTHO featured in your video is the only production model with the compliance plate stamped as a phase 4. So anyway Ford passed the phase 4 out the door discretely as REPO 83. Re production Option 83. The compliance plate is stamped as XAGT REPO 83. As for the 300 sets of Bathurst Globe rims they were sold to Phase 3 owners, practically given away.
@@MrJimibarrett yep my dad traded in his Phase III on a Fairlane with the Phase IV running gear, it was as quick as his Phase III, but sadly got destroyed by a stolen EH, T-boning it. Both cars, I saw the speedo bouncing off the needle stop.
@@MrJimibarrett yeah that’s correct I scored the 4MAB crankshaft in the ZG Fairlane but the cylinder heads were only 2V open chamber. A lot of mismatch of parts.
@@MrJimibarrett yeah that’s correct I scored the 4MAB crankshaft in the ZG Fairlane but the cylinder heads were only 2V open chamber. A lot of mismatch of parts.
when in t/ville.. mid 80,s. new a guy with a ph4.. or . rpo.. orange. he never drove it.. allways for sale, which i tried buying, but, everytime he took it out. not for sale.. i heard ford put gt motors in fairlanes, ltd,s to get rid of them..
Where did you find the information on these cars , because we take great pride of our Aussie Cars here in Australia and any miss information will cause a lot of backlash . supposal the journalist who actually started the article was secretly working for Holden according to Allan Moffett . There are cars these days that have more horsepower then of days of old . These cars started the horsepower craze starting with the Ford XR GT back in 1967 . I would love to really upgrade my personal Subaru Outback with 550 horsepower with all the goodies from the front to the back .
Your script seems to be Ai generated. It is very repetitive You repeat the full name of the car all the time. In Australia we would say the full name over or twice then refer to it as " the phase 4". Maybe before doing any more videos on Australian cars do some real research on Australian culture and Australian cars. Sorry to be so harsh but I'm not a fan of Ai generated content.
It was only something like 10 or 12 hp more than the Phase 3 at something like 350-380hp, it wasn't 'so powerful it was going to rewrite the rules'. Considering the Sport Sedan version were in the 600hp range. That headline didn't stop factory development of race cars, all it did was stop Ford from developing race cars leaving all the glory to Holden for the next 15 years, with basically 2 years of luck, and 2 years of outstanding driving and/or development by Ford privateers. Yeah, sure Peter Brock could drive, but he was also the only one on the grid with a 'Racing Budget'. Allan Moffett couldn't even get a set of spark plugs from Ford, and Dick Johnson was a one man race team who built the car under his house from an old decommissioned cop car and got a couple of mates to change tyres on Bathurst weekend, no help from the factory.
Lovely old cars and amazing for their time but jump forward to now and the three cylinder Corolla will beat these old junkers. But I’d still rather have a simple to work on carby car than the modern,complicated stuff.
they tested them but had no intention of running LJs with v8s, there is a photo some where of an LH with big XU2 decals on the side but the car never made production
@@waddney4121 there were only four prototypes built and one bloke who worked for Holden had all the blue prints from the factory . From the ground up built a pink XU1 LJ Torana V8 and can be found on youtube .
heard along a grapevine that apparently 7 were built for the police force, 2 went to nz and 5 went to south africa, kinda weird in a way considering that aussie built them so shouldn't they have first dibs on what they built?
Just to add HO 004 is 1 of 3 XAGT’s taken off the production line and prepared for Allan Moffat at Mahoney's road. The compliance plate isn’t stamped as a HO.
At least Chrysler Australia got there supercar out the door a few days before the newspaper article.
The mighty
1972 VH Valiant Charger E49 with 11 purpose build Bathurst Specials.
A good friend of mine owned the only Lime Green one build years ago.
There was never going to be a
340 / 4 speed Charger build for the race track way too heavy on the nose.
Considering a Balaced & Blue printed 265 cubic inch , 6 cylinder Hemi with triple Webbers was rumoured to be pushing 335 hp.
Better than anything Chrysler USA could build.
The only Mopar engine in history factory rated road registered to push way more than 1 hp per cubic inch.
Cheers
Louis Kats 👍
Real Shame the Phase IV never made it.
The XA looks 100 more beautiful than the boxy XY by a country mile.
Once the XA Hardtop's were released there was going to be a Phase V.
Real Shame
Saw an interesting video the other day about the Charger 6...an abandoned project TRUCK Engine that Chrysler US couldn't get to work properly...So Aussie Chrysler got them to send over the prototype and fixed all the issues
@@Fantomx7g6 👍👍👍
but those 340 Valiants they were testing were way quicker in a straight line than the hemi 6,
ford xys couldn't keep up with the hemi 6, so the xa had no hope against a mopar v8
and im pretty sure the test vehicles were utes
@waddney4121 yes in a straight line etc but through the corners the V8 charger experience alot of under steer and scrub & prematurely go through tyres , yes maybe quicker but too many pit stops for tyres & fuel.
Hence the superiority of the Hemi.
Chrysler had better cars with better engines throughout the range,not just the charger.
Tragic over reaction it was a crime against humanity to not allow the phase 4 to come out
like guns, there not dangerous... its the nut behind the wheel..
It was a tragedy that the Phase 4 never came out considering a couple of years later the V8 Toranas came out and more people were killed or seriously injured hooning in one of those than a Falcon
becauae every holden driver is brocki.. sad.. holdens are the best ever car built.... but i need ford parts....
Evan Green's front page article was the ONE killer.................... why does this doco repeat itself multiple times............could have been 4 minutes.
Ford should have had some balls and fought back in the press and gone ahead and made 200 models.
The Govt threatened to not buy cars from any manufacturer that continued to build so called super cars, that's what killed off the Phase IV.
Ford Australia ended up selling the Phase 4’s to the public anyway. What happened was the Australian government said that if Ford proceeded to sell the Phase 4 they would stop buying their vehicles for government use. The manufacture of cars for the government was worth more money than 300 phase 4s. So anyway Ford Australia had this massive stockpile of engines, gearboxes, diffs basically they’d had everything to go. The green calypso XAGTHO featured in your video is the only production model with the compliance plate stamped as a phase 4. So anyway Ford passed the phase 4 out the door discretely as REPO 83.
Re production Option 83. The compliance plate is stamped as XAGT REPO 83. As for the 300 sets of Bathurst Globe rims they were sold to Phase 3 owners, practically given away.
@@MrJimibarrett yep my dad traded in his Phase III on a Fairlane with the Phase IV running gear, it was as quick as his Phase III, but sadly got destroyed by a stolen EH, T-boning it. Both cars, I saw the speedo bouncing off the needle stop.
@@MrJimibarrett yeah that’s correct I scored the 4MAB crankshaft in the ZG Fairlane but the cylinder heads were only 2V open chamber. A lot of mismatch of parts.
@@MrJimibarrett yeah that’s correct I scored the 4MAB crankshaft in the ZG Fairlane but the cylinder heads were only 2V open chamber. A lot of mismatch of parts.
when in t/ville.. mid 80,s. new a guy with a ph4.. or . rpo.. orange. he never drove it.. allways for sale, which i tried buying, but, everytime he took it out. not for sale.. i heard ford put gt motors in fairlanes, ltd,s to get rid of them..
@@scotttopen2750 not all rpo83 where identical.
Iv'e heard that Allan Moffat gave Evan Green the cold shoulder after that sensationalized article, and rightly so, imo.
Where did you find the information on these cars , because we take great pride of our Aussie Cars here in Australia and any miss information will cause a lot of backlash . supposal the journalist who actually started the article was secretly working for Holden according to Allan Moffett . There are cars these days that have more horsepower then of days of old . These cars started the horsepower craze starting with the Ford XR GT back in 1967 . I would love to really upgrade my personal Subaru Outback with 550 horsepower with all the goodies from the front to the back .
Sht AI commentary. Full of false information. Stupid headline is poorly worded and descriptive.
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@ it’s not AI? Sorry, but sounded that way.
@ Headline is very poorly worded. Has a totally different meaning to what happened.
Your script seems to be Ai generated. It is very repetitive
You repeat the full name of the car all the time. In Australia we would say the full name over or twice then refer to it as " the phase 4".
Maybe before doing any more videos on Australian cars do some real research on Australian culture and Australian cars.
Sorry to be so harsh but I'm not a fan of Ai generated content.
The only GTHO I’d buy. Think rpo 83. was the one
It was only something like 10 or 12 hp more than the Phase 3 at something like 350-380hp, it wasn't 'so powerful it was going to rewrite the rules'.
Considering the Sport Sedan version were in the 600hp range.
That headline didn't stop factory development of race cars, all it did was stop Ford from developing race cars leaving all the glory to Holden for the next 15 years, with basically 2 years of luck, and 2 years of outstanding driving and/or development by Ford privateers.
Yeah, sure Peter Brock could drive, but he was also the only one on the grid with a 'Racing Budget'. Allan Moffett couldn't even get a set of spark plugs from Ford, and Dick Johnson was a one man race team who built the car under his house from an old decommissioned cop car and got a couple of mates to change tyres on Bathurst weekend, no help from the factory.
Awful video, full of falsehoods & misapprehensions. Painful AI voice. Repetitive imagery. Do yourself a favour & give it a miss.
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@@RevvedUpMusclewe have your word on that?
Lovely old cars and amazing for their time but jump forward to now and the three cylinder Corolla will beat these old junkers.
But I’d still rather have a simple to work on carby car than the modern,complicated stuff.
Think only $ was made. One smashed three sold. One was a police fare from what I’ve reattached
Ford had the last laugh🤣, they just changed the model to the RPO83 and kept it quiet, those who knew knew and those who didn’t didn’t need to!🤣
Cupra formenter 160+mph rented from europcar aud .$100a day 👍
Europcar in Aus, or you OS?
Because of Karen's
there still in gov.....
That was very hard to watch. AI sucks
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Holden Had An XU 1 V8 3:25
And they were raced too..in sports sedan series ! cheers bro.
they tested them but had no intention of running LJs with v8s, there is a photo some where of an LH with big XU2 decals on the side but the car never made production
@@waddney4121 there were only four prototypes built and one bloke who worked for Holden had all the blue prints from the factory . From the ground up built a pink XU1 LJ Torana V8 and can be found on youtube .
@@mathewhyland8925 they road tested the pink and orange one...there are plenty of pics of this prototype toranas.
heard along a grapevine that apparently 7 were built for the police force, 2 went to nz and 5 went to south africa, kinda weird in a way considering that aussie built them so shouldn't they have first dibs on what they built?
Bye-bye 😮