OT - interesting "for sale" in north antarctica right before xmas, GM (holden) pre production prototype Options

[wonkipop]

saw the white one when i was a kid back in 70/71.
and more recently after now defunct GM-H retrieved it from storage and restored it.
holden built two prototypes. one for the show circuit and one to test.
they destruction tested the original twin.




always rumoured to be a third one.
pre production. almost built up before project was abandoned.
what was left of it was supposed to be hidden in some shed somewhere.



suddenly for sale.

https://www.ecuriebowden.com.au/inventory/1...qtUbt95AV7RIvl8


god knows what you would do with it.
or how you could even finish it.

[Shivers]

That is what I thought, where would you get parts to restore it. But it is such a cool car, it seems a shame to waste it. As it was glass, and so is the vette, seems like a good match to build a tribute resto mod. Independent suspension front and rear, slam it to the ground with tires that fill the wheel wells. Sexy. The studebaker avanti ended up being built later as the avanti II because it was such a cool looking car, especially for the time of the first production. There was a company taking your older vette and turning them into a split window vette. To me it just seems like such a waste when it was such a beautiful piece of art. Merry Christmas
@wonkipop

[wonkipop]

That is what I thought, where would you get parts to restore it. But it is such a cool car, it seems a shame to waste it. As it was glass, and so is the vette, seems like a good match to build a tribute resto mod. Independent suspension front and rear, slam it to the ground with tires that fill the wheel wells. Sexy. The studebaker avanti ended up being built later as the avanti II because it was such a cool looking car, especially for the time of the first production. There was a company taking your older vette and turning them into a split window vette. To me it just seems like such a waste when it was such a beautiful piece of art. Merry Christmas
@wonkipop

merry xmas mate.

i believe all the factory body moulds are being sold with the #3 prototype.
the guy who owned the proto and had it stashed for 30 years had also recovered the body moulds separately from a paddock next to the glass factory that made them.

personally i believe the family ought to have donated the car to the national motor museum. it would make sense to display the unfinished #3 next to the white #2 car that is already there. the family must believe there is more money to be made by trying to sell it to a collector on the open market. if it was one of the major art galliries and this was an art work they would have already have bought it for their collections.
unfortunately the national motor museum does not have the budgets of major art galleries and cars are not considered art. they should be? or at least they should be regarded as design objects. another suitable place for it to go would be the powerhouse museum in sydney which does have the $ maybe. thats the museum of design. it has a reasonable operating budget and is a government institution. we shall see.
i imagine the powerhouse might be taking a look at it. not being complete would put them off.