Vince Diecast Cars

1972 Bathurst Ford XY Falcon Phase III GT-HO
Murray Carter
Limited to 850
Includes highly detailed steering wheel and dash featuring full instrumentation,
components and a full roll cage.

The superb engine bay detail included the aircleaner carburettor with Shaker, hosing and more.

After the performance in 1971, the Phase Three GT-HO XY Falcon had the title of being the fastest four door
production sedan of its time and a newer faster model was on its way for the 1972 Bathurst race.

 

The Sydney Sun-Herald newspaper ran a story stating that two major car manufacturers were
building 160mph (256kph) ‘Supercars’, which would be available to the public (a requirement to run at Bathurst).
The story outraged the public and created a political storm which, resulted in the program being aborted by all of the major manufacturers.

 

With the new race cars shelved, the main competitor’s cars for the 1972 Bathurst were very similar to the cars that lined up for the 1971 race.

 

Out of the 60 starters, Murray Carter in his Phase Three GT-HO Falcon qualified in 22nd position.

 

In a first, the Bathurst race started in pouring rain, conditions not suited for the large Falcons.
The rain lasted until lap 23, where the Falcons were now able to record some good lap times on the drying track.
But they were now suffering a problem, the extreme brake temperatures were proving too much for the factory pads.

 

Carter was having a good race moving his way through the grid, but late in the race he struck problems when he bounced
his Falcon off the fence at Murray’s Corner, the damaged guard cutting the right front tyre at Forrest's Elbow later in the lap.

 

Carter continued on three wheels making it back to the pits. His pit crew then set upon his car with an axe to
 remove the part of offending guard. A new tyre was fitted and Carter was able to continue racing,
 but he incurred a one-minute penalty after requiring a push-start from the pits.

 

Murray Carter finished the race with a very second-hand looking car in overall 10th position (one position behind Allan Moffat),
8 laps down on the overall winner Peter Brock.