red750 Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgmwa Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 It's called an Unaffordamobile. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
octave Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Hurricane 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 Probably cancelled by Detroit when they first got wind of it. . Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spenaroo Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 Its sitting at the national motor museum here in birdwood. along with this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rastus Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 GTR-X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted April 8 Author Share Posted April 8 4 minutes ago, Rastus said: GTR-X Read octaves answer above. It's a 1969 Holden Hurricane prototype. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 (edited) The photo of the car in Birchwood looks like a GTR-X, but the Hurricane is a seriously cool looking car... from teh front. The back would need some work and the petrol cap would have top be moved, but as a prototype, it looks to have some great potential in its day. It would be intersting to read why they didn't take it forward. Edited April 8 by Jerry_Atrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted April 8 Author Share Posted April 8 As Nev suggested, Detroit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litespeed Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 It's easy to see why not. It's not the price, which would have been huge. It not they couldn't build it, but that's debatable, more a Italian specialist job. But can you imagine trying to sell that next to a HT Holden? It would make everything else seem dated, poorly made and extremely low tech- which is exactly what they were. The GTR-X would have been barely possible, the exotic Hurricane had no chance. A bit like Holden trying to make a Alfa Montreal or a De Tomaso Pantera. No chance in hell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spenaroo Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 the hurricane always reminds me of a cross between the RX500 from mazda, and a Purvis Eureka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 That Hurricane would get airborne at the front like the Merc did at the LeMans 24 hour.. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litespeed Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 The flying Merc was scary stuff, unless you are Mark Webber. After his car flipped then his team mates the brass balled bugger still got in the backup car and drove like hell, until it flipped as well. A he walked away both times, very stern stuff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 Mercedes blamed the driver???? They also resisted front wheel brakes claiming the car would go A over Apex in the late 20's. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litespeed Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 After your driver's launch into unstable orbit at Lemans not once or twice but three times? Aero instability was always a design issue and the first crash proved it. Even superman can't out drive being launch over a rise at 300+and you loose downforce and the air sucks the front of the car into the air. Now it's a airfoil and the car is suddenly airborne and flipping backwards at 300 +......faaarrk Amazing crash safety but it's not if but how soon you crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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