I don't know if this is legit, but the ad is well written and seems quite plausible.
Anyone have any information about this?
I don't know if this is legit, but the ad is well written and seems quite plausible.
Anyone have any information about this?
It's not a GM-built car. It's a car built by a GM employee. There's a difference.
Seems legit. Of course, hardly anyone is alive that will remember that car to confirm.
I'm amazed that the car is sitting somewhere in the middle of rural Ohio corn country about one hour from my house.
That is actually really good looking, in my opinion. The designer did a good job. It's also TINY!
Yeah that is a home built. I don;t think GM ever santioned that. Still cool but not 56K cool.
There's a guy near me who's been trying to sell one of these on CL for 4 grand for like forever. Despite the MD tags in this photo it's not the same one.
It's always strange when you see some random one off vehicle that you never knew about.
Somewhat similar to that Electrica 007 (which i actually see for sale quite often), this electric Chrysler concept car came up for sale in my state for a not-ridiculous price. It awkwardly previewed what would later turn out to be some pretty good looking 80's ChryCo products.
There was another Electrica in LeMons recently, I guess people keep around the sporty cars and the super-weird ones and let the normal stuff rot away.
Closebut no cigar. Styling a car from scratch is a tough job that few can pull off at home.
That's quite nice. 
Although "scary fast" and Lotus sounds like the car would try to kill you. 
In reply to NOHOME :
Kind of hard to get the rear end right when the overall length is about the same as my CooperS. I'll bet it looks better in person than that first picture would lead me to believe. I just have a thing for small/tiny cars.
So now we know what happens when a Corvair and an Opel GT mate.
If that WAS a complete museum grade GM concept car, it MIGHT be worth that.
Unfortunately, it's not.
It's a home built car, which uses a Corvair engine and a Porsche transaxle with a custom body. Many of us could build it.
The BaT article says a BIN of $125K.
And no title. 
SVreX said:The BaT article says a BIN of $125K.
And no title.
Absolute crack price
NOHOME said:Closebut no cigar. Styling a car from scratch is a tough job that few can pull off at home.
How many cars look really good in retrospect? We remember the high points and try to forget the low, but I'd say this car has aged better than 90 percent of producion cars from the same year.
Other than crack pipe six-figure price, the HP claim is 99 percent likely to be bogus. There are no current shots of the engine (Quite an ommision, I'd say), but the black and white snappie shows an engine with two carbs for each cylinder bank which means that they kept the log intake manifold. Unless they're running nitrous, there's no way that 200 HP worth of air will move through that manifold/head arangement.
Looks like good workmanship though.
but both the seller and R&T article say that Molzon found the car’s performance capabilities to be almost too much.......
but considering the history, looks, rarity and performance on offer here, it certainly seems fair.
To be fair, if it were italian, people would be fighting for the thing; if built by Carlo Prepostoru-Vaseliny, would fall into the catch-all italian boutique car category of "Ectceterini" and be considered an automotive delicacy. As it sits, it is a home built kit car that handled so bad that it was relegated to staionary art.
Much like when I go inventing a new recipe...all the great ingredients dont always result in something that I would ever do again.
NOHOME said:if built by Carlo Prepostoru-Vaseliny, would fall into the catch-all italian boutique car category of "Ectceterini" and be considered an automotive delicacy.
QOTW!
NOHOME said:but both the seller and R&T article say that Molzon found the car’s performance capabilities to be almost too much.......
I wonder how much of that was due to 1960s tire technology? I'm guessing "all of it"
Flaming Nora did anyone else see the current bid for the 2000 Si on BaT? 
I like the design. Obviously better than most scratch homebuilts, but of course he had access to things most of us do not. I'll bet it would be buckets of fun.
One thing we can all agree on...
It's a really cool piece!
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