A new phase
The 1970 Ford XW Falcon GT-HO may not have been the first GT-HO but it did introduce the now highly evocative word ‘Phase’ to the Australian motoring lexicon. What many soon came to call the ‘Phase 1’ was simply the ‘GT-HO’ in 1969. But then the Phase II came along and that all changed.
Mortein principle
Yes, the first GT-HO’s styling carried over to the Phase II, but the John Laws Mortein principle applies here: When you’re on a good thing, stick to it. The second GT-HO didn’t need visual changes when the original XW GT-HO (and the ‘regular’ GT on which it was based) looked so good.
Those stripes
Ford’s designers nailed the styling of the XW GT’s and GT-HO’s horizontal side stripes. No subsequent GT striping has looked better given the way they end (or begin, depending on your perspective) with the Superoo decal located within the short vertical section on the front quarter-panel.
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