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.

[Craigers17]

Hope I'm not hijacking your thread, but it reminds me a little bit of the Kellison J-cars. O.K. .....maybe it's a stretch....I think it's just the back. Either way....pretty cool.... thanks for posting.

[wonkipop]

Hope I'm not hijacking your thread, but it reminds me a little bit of the Kellison J-cars. O.K. .....maybe it's a stretch....I think it's just the back. Either way....pretty cool.... thanks for posting.

not a stretch at all.
mechanical layout similar.
a bit like an early TVR as well.

engine set well back. you might say almost front mid engined.
not quite but close in the case of the GTR-X.
and a diff literally right behind your backside.

which might have been why the journos who did drive the GTR-X said it got a git skittish at 90mh on the test track. early TVRs are a bit of a handful i understand.
never driven one.