XA Phase IV GT & rpo83 2 door Gt

[historic]

I have emailed Biante with the suggestion that they release annually a historic Australian muscle car, the first one I have suggested is the Ford Phase IV GT in sedan of which only one exist's but was the next step that never made it unfortunately and the rpo83 2 door of which only one was built for a bloke by the name of Bib Stilwell. Anyone else intested if they are prepared to biuld it/them.What are your thoughts on an annual limited release of something special in the way of an Australian performance car model.:)

[biante1247]

Correct me if I am wrong but I remember reading somewhere that the Stillwell coupe had that it was a HO motor on the compliance plate. This would make it a factory sorta phase 4 coupe not an RPO83 coupe of which there were quite a few made.
Either way the more Biante GTs the better.

Paul.

[Nick Short]

Not just the HO motor, but the full works.....Once they track down the Stillwell Phase IV coupe they'll HAVE to make a model of it.....ooohh yesss! But for the time being an RPO 83 will do me very nicely thank you!

[Leigh]

How about a balanced poll?

Where is the "No I'm not interested".

OR what about other Limited run/unique/concept cars? XU2, Hurricane, 2 door XR GT (or was it XT?), S4, Black GTHO III, Big Block GTHO III all spring to mind, and I'm sure there are more...

Biante already make historic Australian muscle which would include GT's, HO's, XU1's A9X's, GTS's etc AND they already release limited edition/concept/special cars (concept coupe, Option 97 etc).

So is this another "Make me this car and if not here's my close second" poll?

OR is it, "I've got a great idea, what do you think?"

At the moment it is both, with forced agreeance

[SWRT]

Don't forget the E55 Valiant Charger.
It did get released for the road but with a detuned V8.
Release it with the undetuned V8.
Maybe a Leyland force 7R as well.Theres 10 in existance.

For the GTHO phase 4,which one should be made.
The original unrestored one seen at the Bathurst GT Nationals located in Western NSW or the Dave Bowdin car which Allan Moffat was to drive?

[historic]

Thankyou for your reply Icfp2297,
i didn't put a "No I'm not interested in as I figured that if your not interested why reply,my idea in creating this poll is three fold;
1/ To thank and encourage Biante to keep on keeping on with the Australian performance car concept.Something I think model collectors have waited for decades for.
2/ To see if anyone else thought that a annual limited release of something special (Australian) was to anyone elses liking apart from myself.
3/ And as your idea points out other models like the XU2 and the Hurricane etc, (I think I still have the poster of it somewhere here ) are the sort of vehicle I'm talking about.

As for the "Make me this car and if not here's my close second" poll? , No , it is simply a poll to see if there is enough interest out there, read 'numbers to encourage" a system where we could perhaps put our collective heads together and come up with a special Australian rare performance car model each year and if we are lucky Biante may make it, its that simple, thanks again for yours and everyone elses reply so far.

Originally posted by lcfp2297
How about a balanced poll?

Where is the "No I'm not interested".

OR what about other Limited run/unique/concept cars? XU2, Hurricane, 2 door XR GT (or was it XT?), S4, Black GTHO III, Big Block GTHO III all spring to mind, and I'm sure there are more...

Biante already make historic Australian muscle which would include GT's, HO's, XU1's A9X's, GTS's etc AND they already release limited edition/concept/special cars (concept coupe, Option 97 etc).

So is this another "Make me this car and if not here's my close second" poll?

OR is it, "I've got a great idea, what do you think?"

At the moment it is both, with forced agreeance

[Leigh]

G'day historic,

I would agree 100% with all three comments above...BUT...the poll does not reflect this.

I illustrate this with the current poll results (as at 1645EST 25/2/03)

Annual release 1 vote
Phase IV 9 votes
RPO 2 votes
All 3 votes

As can be seen here, only four people out of 15 are interested in an annual release (as they have responded to the poll). All others want a particular car, hence my comments. I also think that the oppurtunity should be given to people to say "Not interested" (i.e. keep going with the excellent job so far). This can only strengthen the argument, if say 20 say yes and only 2 say no...

Regards
Leigh