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WOW, what a story, but I do get annoyed at Aussies that come over here and play those sort of stunts, fortunately I haven't come across one otherwise I would kick his arse back on the plane.
 Some of us did it the right way and went through the right avenues. And yes it was difficult to clean the GT in the early days but it is done.
  Now as for the XC ute, the guy was barking up the wrong tree, I guess he got them for next to nothing and tried to porn them off here. Considering they arn't worth it back home anyway. The same goes for the later utes that are hovering around here in california. They are trying to register them as Rancheros. Problem is how would I want to drive them if I got pulled up and tried to pass them up as a Ranchero, thats why I don't touch them. Now the XY utes are worth the money.
  And finally since we are on a Hotrod forum, the real utes that are worth the money is the Aussie built Mainlines and Chevys, they are hot at the moment on the Streetrod scene.  Now your talking MONEY  

I am assuming you had "dinkum" XY GTHO Phase III Falcon's? Always wondered: What U.S. car of that time period did they compare too?

Our "Musle" an "Pony" cars did not have refined suspension systems where the Aussie car did(?). The term "High Performance" can be slanted to mean many things and that's why I wonder exactally what the GTHO's had to offer, besides being different then the typical four and six cylinder cars of that time period in OZ.  

Well here'e the main thing which you will laugh about.The XY GTHO was considered the worlds fastest 4 door production car. Yeh I know the 4 door put it aside from all those fast 2 doors they produced in America. You know the way you guys talk about the World Series.What ever happened to all the other countries?
  Anyway, it had a 351 4 bolt mains with 4V heads and a 4 speed toploader tranny.Yep it was fast. We have a lot of 4 door muscle cars back home which puts things in a different catagory. I guess we wanted to get mum to the loacl store in a hurry! America was the 2 door king, so anything under that did not seem realistic.
  The GT had a lot of accessaries that the Mach 1 Mustang offered. Australia had to produce so many of these cars to be able to race them under the catagory for circuit racing, Holden also so did it with the early Monaro with the Chevy motor in it . These are very sort after these days. Only recently has Holden produced the Chevy in the Lasted models, eg your Pontiac GTO ( our Monaro), The G8 ( our Commodore. So a lot of the upgrades were done to comply to racing as long as they offered so many for sale and a lot was influenced by the American models of previous years. So a lot of models were similar to the American vehicle eg the Rachero and the Falcon ute.  

Yes, but what American car would/did the GT HO Phase III compare to?

As for being the "Fastest Production 4-dr Sedan", that was not a joke as they could outrun the German cars. But the German "saloons" would have been easier to drive over a long distance because they were more refinded in areas Ford never bothered to study.

I have a copy of the 140 MPH in 5th photo (which was actually in 4 th gear!) from Street Machine Magazine. That one photo shut down the performance car in OZ for several decades. Something about the companies selling race cars to the general public who were not trained to drive race cars.

After all the developments during the last few decades it is a laugh to re-read the "selling race cars to the general public".  

Well that is a good question. What did America have in the 4 door version in 1971? Sure there probably was that big 460 but it wouldn't compare to the high performance of the 351 GT.You did have the 4 door falcon Sprint which was the closest thing to the look of the GT. Actually it was the car that the GT was designed from. Anyway when you were brought up around that era you have a soft spot for the GTHO. I certainly wish the one I built for a friend in California was sitting in my garage,but I have spent most of my time been caught up in the American muscle cars and have missed certain opportunities to build one of the GT's.Even the standard XY Falcons are getting hard to find.