Thanks for putting the pics up of the car, Dave, and mentioning the website.
The car is an XA. All Australian manufacturers give their cars two letter code names, usually based on the model. If the model gets revised, the code letters change.
The XA ran from very early 1972 to late 73, then there was the XB which ran to 76 and the XC which ran to mid 78, before the car was completely redesgned again. The two door hardtop only was available in XA, XB, XC.
It is the car from the Mad Max film which was a genuine XB GT and is in a museum in England.
Australians have traditionally not liked two door domestic coupes and this was true in the seventies, hence there are more GT four doors of both XA and XB type than hardtops (there was no XC GT model). There are several factors for this, but most especially while US musclecars of the sixties era tended to be aimed at kids with no real responsibilities and in families with pop's car and mom's station wagon as well, the Falcon GT was an expensive car and as such was bought, most usually, as the families sole car, hence it had to be practical, hence four doors.
Ford only built 890 (odd) XA GT two doors and an almost exactly similar number of XB GT two doors so they are very rare cars. They are quite sophisticated too (who else was putting four wheel disk brakes in 'muscular' cars in 1973, apart from Corvette), and actually handle very well
As the seventies wore on, selling them became really difficult, hence Ford created the Cobra (as seen on Dave's other link), just to get rid of the last two door bodyshells.
Ford also tended to race the four door Falcons, and only raced the two doors through the seventies. They have lowered windscreens and Ford deliberately put those huge bulging (the hardtops are 3.5 inches wider at the back than the front) rear guards so that they could stuff big rubber under the back.
I think the Eric Bana film could be hugely entertaining, based on the clips. If you like Eric Bana, you will love 'Chopper' as well, his breakthrough movie about Mark 'Chopper' Read. There is a four door GT and an Aus Charger in it.
I have bought dvd's from Australia through this website
http://www.ezydvd.com.au/
Quick delivery and playable on most all region players.
I got 'Running on Empty' from them with the black Challenger, and, so brief if you blink you will miss it, the famous rhd Daytona.
I will try them in a few months to see if it is out on dvd (Job lot purchase for the UK ???)
My car is a bit itsa bitsa. It is an XA with an XC 9inch and XC disk brakes (better design than the XB style); XF front brakes; an XC 351 Cleveland; a late sixties Top Loader; Performance Challenger (neat MoPar post content
) wheels. It has the XA GT dash with the 'wonky' gauges; white interior and sunrroof. I was going to have the 36 gallon long range fuel tank fitted, then realised, here in the UK, I would never be able to afford to fill it.
Thanks for the interest.
Sandy
BTW, we do have a couple of MoPars too, a 1967 Monaco wagon and a 1969 Plymouth Satellite.