Last-ever Aussie-built Falcon GT quietly changes hands for a rumoured $1 million

Monday, 10 May 2021

The Ford Falcon has been a pop culture icon, but none of them is more iconic than the Mad Max Interceptor.

The last-ever Ford Falcon GT built in Australia back in 2014 has sold privately for a rumoured AU$1 million (NZ$1.07m).

Ford auctioned the last 500 local build allocations for the FPV GT F, with the final slot going to Steven Clark, who paid AU$236,100 (NZ$254,321) for it.

'Ford invited me down to Geelong and said 'you can either sit and watch the engine being built, or you can help build it',' Clarke told CarAdvice.

The final Ford Falcon GT F, built in 2014. This is 001 out of 500 build slots for Australian buyers, with number 500 changing hands for a cool million.

'I installed the cams and other bits. I also went to Broadmeadows and put the stripe on the boot and put together the grille, fitted the 500 build badge, and different things like that.'

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Fifty of the last 550 Falcon GT Fs were sold in New Zealand. Be interesting to see how much one would go for today...

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The car was painted in Victory Gold, as a homage to the first 1967 Ford Falcon GT, and was driven off the production line by Clark on 8 October 2014.

Power comes from a 5.0-litre ‘Boss 351’ supercharged V8 making a healthy 351kW/570Nm, sent rearward through a six-speed manual. Along with the 500 auctioned build slots, 50 GT F’s were sent to New Zealand.

Apparently, according to insiders speaking to CarAdvice, Clark was in contact with auction houses and discussing reserve prices of $1 million before a friend reportedly put him in touch with an interested party and a deal was struck.

The same sources say the new owner also owns the last (or one of the last) Holden Commodore SS built in Oz, which sold in January 2021 for $750,000 (NZ$807,881), along with a bunch of other historically significant cars made in Australia.