I spend a little bit of time on the Falcon GT website (I used to have an XW GT) and they post about top speeds in the 140s to 150s so I posted a note that this XW had done 180mph.......no response. No sense of humour those guys!
Lynchy
Pre speed limit days my brother was getting a lift with the local Ford dealer home to the bush and they were on the Hume highway near Seymour when a cop chased them and pulled them over( it was single lane)It was probably a new GT they were in,
"How fast do you think you were going?"
" 'bout a hundred?"
"nup, see that car coming?.....I passed him to catch up with you , he's doing a hundred"
As my brother says the car in question was off in the distance, they were stationary on the side of the road and he reckons when they passed that car IT looked almost stationary......
"you were doing 145 , take it easy"
Of course as soon as he got back in he just mashed it again.
Around this time on the same piece of road my mum, driving a Fairlane,had a blowout front right, broadsided and then spun at about 70 ending up on the wrong side of the road fortunately avoiding anything coming from the other direction ,me in the front , no seatbelts from memory..........i'm glad no-one was coming the other way at 145.
The Jag looks great, I mean it.