Ford Falcon 1976 Coupe “XBOSS”

Only 125 Ford Falcon XB coupes were built in 1976, the final year before Ford Australia retired its pillarless hardtop shape for good. One now carries the nickname XBOSS — earned, not badge-stamped. Here’s what made the XB coupe a touring car icon, and why so few survived to become the collector pieces they are today.

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Somewhere in Australia sits a 1976 Ford Falcon XB coupe that answers to a name most owners would never dare give their car: XBOSS. It’s not a factory badge or a dealer option — it’s a nickname earned through years of building, tuning, and refusing to let one of the last XB coupes fade into obscurity. Only a few hundred of these pillarless hardtops were built in their final year, right as Ford Australia prepared to retire the shape for good. What makes this particular XB worthy of a name like XBOSS, and why does a humble two-door Falcon still command this kind of reverence half a century later?

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The Last of a Vanishing Shape

The XB Falcon, produced from 1973 to 1976, was a facelift of the earlier XA generation, wearing a redesigned nose and reworked tail while carrying over the pillarless fastback coupe silhouette developed under Ford design chief Jack Telnack’s team. That shape — a two-door hardtop with no center pillar — became the signature look of Ford Australia’s muscle era, and it disappeared almost as soon as it arrived. By 1976, with the XC Falcon waiting in the wings, coupe production had slowed to a trickle: just 125 built that final year, out of 949 total XB coupes across the whole run.

Built on a Bathurst Reputation

The XB’s road cred wasn’t just about styling. Its stablemate, the XA GT Hardtop, won the Bathurst 1000 in 1973 with Allan Moffat behind the wheel, and Moffat carried that momentum into 1976 by taking the Australian Touring Car Championship in an XB. GT versions of the XB were powered by Ford’s 351-cubic-inch Cleveland V8, paired with either a four-speed manual or three-speed automatic and backed by four-wheel disc brakes — serious hardware for an Australian family car platform doing double duty as a touring car weapon.

Why Rarity Turns Into Reverence

With production numbers this small — and the pillarless coupe body style retired entirely after the XB — surviving cars have become magnets for restorers and collectors chasing a shape Ford never built again. A name like XBOSS isn’t vanity; it’s a badge of survival, marking a car that outlasted its own production run’s rarity and the decades since. For Falcon coupe owners, keeping one of the last 125 on the road is as much a statement as it is a restoration.

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