Did you ever drive one? My mate had a black one he called Black Betty. It was the mid 80's and the car was in basically as delivered specification. It had 10" wheels on the back and the thing absolutely hammered. I don't think I ever drove a faster factory delivered Aussie car until LS1's and LS2's came around. It was the last Ford performance package - essentially a hangover from the series production cars. People want them as they are essentially the same thing as a 1973 "bathurst" spec XU-1, ie a homologation special. L34 is essentially the same thing too. After 1974 and before HDT arrived everything built was p!ssweak as there was no need to homologate engines anymore.Originally Posted by chrisp
Plus if you ask guys who bought them new, those that got RPO's with imported 4V engines verses the softc$%k Aussie engines that some got was like stepping from a 308 to a 202 in performance. I know a guy who bought a XA GT sedan new, and so did his brother. One ended up with an RPO the other not. They were over 1.5 seconds different over the quarter when they tried them.
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