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Ford Falcon Cobra XC Hardtop
Looking at a Falcon Cobra for sale?
Put in the asking price and the odometer reading. You will see what this model should make at that reading.
Odometer only. Colour, options, history, condition and the photographs move it further, and that is what the report reads.
Price history
The verdict
Recorded sales
Every row, with its price and note (2) ↓
Score breakdown
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
What it costs to own · about 2,500 km a year
Specification
What moves the price on this model
Condition, history, originality, ownership, delivery and modification multipliers apply to every car in the library. They are applied automatically when an advertisement is analysed, and the schedule is set out once, on the analyser page.
Projected value in five years
The case for and against
The most recognisable Australian Ford, 400 numbered cars with a live register, and its one public transaction is recent and third-party authenticated - the cleanest single-sale record in this library.
A single sale is still a single sale, the 4.9-litre cars dilute casual pricing, and the Option Pack premium means the headline results that make news do not price the standard 170 5.8 road cars.
Known faults and risks
Similar cars, and what they cost to run
An ICAARS-authenticated Cobra made $166,500 at Lloyds in 2024 - a single result, but a recent one with third-party authentication attached, which is worth more than an older sale without it.
Read the rest of the evidence notes (5 more)
400 numbered Hardtops in Sno White with Bold Blue stripes, built to clear the last coupe shells when Ford ended the body style, and accidentally the most recognisable Falcon ever made - number 1 sits in Ford's own collection and the 30 Bathurst Option Pack cars carry a market of their own above the standard run.
Every car wears its build number on the console, low numbers and the Option Pack carry premiums the way W1 build numbers do, and the authentication industry exists because stripes are the easiest costume in Australian classics.
Build number 241 of 400, matching numbers, two registered owners from new, made $215,000 at Strathfield on 9 February 2026 - against $166,500 at Lloyds in 2024 for an ICAARS-authenticated car. Twenty months apart.
The Strathfield car documents its build number, its matching-numbers engine, five dated service entries running from 8,739 kilometres in 1979, and an air cleaner lid signed by Allan Moffat and Dick Johnson. Against that it carries 104,872 kilometres - more than three times what this record expects - and peeling paint on a front fender. The 2024 car had third-party authentication and less documentation of its own history.
Between the two results and nearer the recent one. The distance term is left alone at 1.6 per cent and it is worth saying why: at 104,872 kilometres against an expected 30,000, the twelve per cent cap binds long before the real adjustment would - so the model is already declining to price the odometer on this car, which on a 1978 homologation coupe is the right answer for the wrong reason.
The report prices the car in the advertisement.
Send the link. A person reads the advertisement and its photographs and sends back what that Ford Falcon Cobra XC Hardtop is worth, what to offer and when to walk away, with five years of costs at the distance you drive.
The evidence on this model is thin and the report says so on its cover. Read a complete one on a real car first. Seventeen sections, no account, nothing to pay.
One line of email when this desk publishes a call on a Ford Falcon Cobra XC Hardtop, or records a new Australian sale of one. Nothing else, no schedule, and on a quiet model you may hear nothing for months, which is itself worth knowing about a car you are chasing.