The XC GS of Allan Moffat at Bathurst in 1977 The 1977 Bathurst 1000 winning XC GS driven by Allan Moffat has been chosen the most famous Australian racing Falcon of all time by readers of Speedcafe.com. In the Pirtek Poll, which compared
Moffat’s XC against 11 other iconic Falcons from the 1960s to contemporary V8 Supercars, nearly 5,000 people cast their votes. Moffat’s XC received 28.2 percent of the total vote, just shy of the 26.5 percent received by Ford legend’s XY GT-HO.
The two were separated by Stone Brothers Racing’s BA, which emerged as the most well-liked of the modern era with 8.5 percent of the vote. Moffat drove the XC GS model from the beginning of the 1977
endurance season, winning the Australian Touring Car Championship and the Bathurst race. The achievement transpired barely four years subsequent to Ford’s formal withdrawal from Australian motor
racing. Even though the XCs were sold under the Moffat Ford Dealers brand, the manufacturer provided the lion’s share of the money. The usually sardonic Moffat recently remarked on the Shannons
Legends of Motorsport television series, saying, “The Ford dealers were very enthusiastic, I think I could count two or three of them by name.” “The sole explanation for why I was
