Beautiful car Tony and a real credit to your attention to the details. It is clear you are a true GT enthusiast and created a fantastic example of a very special car and did it enormous justice. I just get annoyed with people when a GT is being discussed and all they are interested in is how much it cost, what its worth now and what it will fetch if sold etc etc. Seems some people interest in GT's is centred solely on the fiscal factor. True GT enthusiasts lust over the quality, mystique and aura of these cars. I had one back in the day, begrudgingly had to sell it to pay for a divorce and now they are out of my league. I couldn't care what they bring $wise now and no I am not bitter about the current market. All I know is my happy place is when my mind is going back to how much I loved my GT and what it was like to drive (as they are meant to be) and how hard it was to have to part with it. Love it, drive it and enjoy it Tony. Please :0
Thank you for your kind words Greg. I definitely have no intention on selling it as I also own another big block falcon which I built and based on this bill bourke car. Here is the link for it, hope you enjoy it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TTvsG540EfY.html
Bill Bourke was in charge of Ford Australia and as such was based at head office in Broadmeadows, he and the car were occasionally in Geelong on company business. The car was loaned to a fellow apprentice for a week after he won Fords apprentice of the year, that is when I got to ride around in it
The concept that bill Bourke realised with the original was just genius It took Holden 40 years to do it again with the 427 commodore special So 40 years ahead of it’s time!
428 c6modified onyx’s black Black outs deleted built in Dearborn! Good thing about the falcon it’s a poor mans mustang & it all bolts straight up to! This car is like geoghans super gt! Priceless & a national treasure
Thank you Shane, however I’m not sure about the “poor man’s mustang” haha. Even though parts do bolt up to these falcons off the mustangs they are chalk and cheese and can’t really be compared.
Awesome car Tony i remember you showing me photos of the car 5 years ago when it wasn't finished you probably don't remember me but I worked on your green xy with Dennis what a tribute love your work.😎💪💪💪👍
Yeh jim I remember you ofcourse 👍 if you click into my RU-vid videos you’ll see the walk around video of what the green xy looks like now after a full restoration aswell. Enjoy. And hope your well.
Iwas in this car in the early seventies @ Ford product engineering at Geelong, and if the paint has fine gold flakes in it, then it is original. Bill Boutke was the big boss when I worked there. I dont remember the venetian blind on the rear window though. My tool box even had a Superoo sticker on it.
Wow, what a work of art. Hard to believe that the original car was advertised for sale in the early nineties 65K. It would bring over a million these days. Nice work, hope to see it one day in the flesh at an All Ford Day
@@tonidimitrioski9294 remember reading about it in a mag think was a comparison with a bronze wine GT, they compared it to some sort of boat surging on in the sea such was the power by comparison to the little GT, nice job mate
OMg i remember when this car was for sale they wanted 100K in unique car mag, also the red racing XY GT 029 i think was the no, 120K also the last XE ESP 4.9lt for sale which was 50K? around 1987/88. :) check out the massive trans cooler, also this is the best of the best GT's ever made full stop, forget the rst bill bouek got the best he started the gt programme, so it was his car and nothing can replace such a car, sure to make a replica it would still cost a mint to make one, and this is the original. :) I hope one day it comes down to the GT nationals in geelong. :)
Beautiful detail .... I was just discussing this on another. Forum about loosing the opportunity of buying a phase 4 off Lahood motors. Back in the 80s .....this or the original which ever this is is the most rarest factory built for in the world ....a factory big block with a shaker ....before it even came out ...._well done ....👍
Being an xw man I’d say the bill Bourke special is abit more special as far as what they did with it in 1969 along with the driveline & luxury options as opposed to the phase 4. However still an amazing car.
Read a good mag on the original and how a Ford Australia employee got the drop on this development car and by fate got his hands on it due to the ballot winner rejecting the car after he spun in the wet when he picked it up. Better than winning lotto. Great story.
G’day mate Just watched your video of your 429 XY 👍👍👍👍👍 Done as it would have been intended! Not to everyone’s taste, but hey! An option it “could” have been! 👍
Hi Shane, thank you buddy. I built it as a brother /twin car to this car as my intereptation to what the bill bourke car would’ve looked like if it was built the following year as an XY
Hi Bruce, sorry buddy the bill bourke car was never a 427. It was an factory 351 Windsor/fmx car that came back from karkraft USA with a 428 cobra jet big block and c6 auto trans.
Just wondering has it got the auto boot release handle next to the drivers seat, i think it did have it? Its got the Fairlane seats and door mirror adjusters, so must have the boot release handle as well? Today its over 1.5 million easy?
@@tonidimitrioski9294 Mate she is totally a beast remember when the original was up for sale for 120K in unique cars book in 1987/88, Also the last XE ESP 4.9Lt ( 50K) and also a XY GTHO race car ( 80K) who ever brought it the original car has a 2 million dollar car easy and even a replica would be worth at least 500K easy, especially if its done 100% correct everything was like Bill Bourke's other than the build plates for id other than that its the same car per say, thank you for sharing it?🚓🚓👍👌✌🦘
Originally the car the factory as an onyx black gt. The brownish/ goldy colour you see is the metallic in the piano that was applied when it was redone in the US in Dearborn.
@@tonidimitrioski9294 mate i believe he had fairlane seats put in it, not mustang seats unless they are the same ? Also wheres the A/c under the dash, cant see it at all, plus noticed the power steering pump under the A/C compressor? Also i believe the seats were all black italian leather as well from memory, still a great looking car well done mate?
@@7071t6 the front seats are from a 1969 Mach 1 mustang and the rear seats from a fairlane ZC. The air con vents are in the kick panels as per factory spec for xw GT’s and yes the p/s pump is located under the air compressor
@@tonidimitrioski9294buddy have you had it dynoed, i bet she has around 450 hp at the flywheel for sure if not more if she has modern day internals etc. 🦘🦘👌✌👍
@@tonidimitrioski9294 mate has she got a trans cooler like the gt mustangs, shelby's had etc. or maybe the XC Bathurst version which is almost the same as the shelby mustangs trans coolers.🦘🦘👍👍
Matt sorry that is incorrect. The 2 door car you are referring to was built by Al turner for the 1969 motor show. It was a US coupe that has designs off the Aussie xt such as rear lights and front grille and also xw stripes. However that had a 351 Windsor in it. Bill bourke owned a pink xr, blue xt and then this car was built by him for himself as his personally car which is an xw gt known as “the bill bourke special”.
