The Brute! Allan Moffats ill-fated XB GT Falcon hardtop, at Sandown, 1974. The Falcon started life as an XA GT, and one of the six RPO83 cars, originally raced by Fred Gibson in 1973. It was one of three factory team cars from '73 before Ford pulled out of racing at the end of that season. Moffats own XA GT was demolished at Phillip Island in late '73, so Ford gave him Gibsons car, so he could keep racing in 1974. He upgraded it with XB sheet metal, with Brut 33 sponsorship in early 1974, before it was flown in secret to the US in the belly of a Pan-Am 747 to the dis-used Kar-Kraft facilities in Michigan, where Lee Dykstra tore it back to bare metal, and rebuilt it with the intention of winning Bathurst.

Its first Aussie race after its rebuild was here at Sandown, with new colour scheme, huge Nascar style race numbers and Minilite wheels. It was a work of art, and raised the bar in Aussie touring car racing. Moffat killed the opposition, winning the Sandown 400, but it failed miserably after a couple of small issues compounded to create a domino effect that turned into a complete disaster at Bathurst. It qualified a lowly 15th, and stumbled through 92 laps before being retired, after countless problems.

In 1975 the car raced in selected ATCC rounds, before being repainted bright red with gold highlights, and gold Minilites, but was destroyed when Moffats race transporter caught fire on its way to the Adelaide ATCC round in 1976.

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