Holden hurricane concept car 1969

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О концепте Holden Hurricane мы уже рассказывали, однако на днях австралийская компания объявила, что намерена возродить свой первый футуристический концепт - кар 1969 Hurricane RD.

Энциклопедия автомобилей в картинках. ZHAND.RU  Holden Hurricane Concept Car ' 1969. 669.

Максимальная скорость машины не уточняется. Safety innovations included a foam-lined fuel tank, integrated roll-over bar, digital instrument readouts, ignition safety locks, interior padding and a fire warning system. Truck of the Year. It must have given the GMH engineers a good deal of pleasure to be able to work on something purely experimental and without having to worry about costs. Восстановленный автомобиль будет выставлен на шоу классических автомобилей в Мельбурне.

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More than a month. Nobody had seen anything like its radical dart-like profile before. It was clear from my first sighting that there was never any intention to build the Hurricane, yet the concept did provide a window to the future. Its science-fiction-like technology included on-board navigation, a rear-mounted camera to account for no rear window, automatic air conditioning, digital instrumentation, oil-cooled front disc brakes, tilt steering column, adjustable pedals, and, most dramatically, no doors.

Designer Don DaHarsh developed the American scale model to full size and along with Ambor, former aeronautical engineer Ed Taylor, and body engineer Jack Hutson, the team clothed the steel spaceframe in an epoxy-resin body. However, the American scale model only shows conventional door shutlines. As the one-piece hydraulic roof canopy — with its massive wrap-around Plexiglas pillarless windshield, without wipers — opens, it simultaneously electrically raises the fixed seats.

Some former Holden employees believed the images of the car moving at the Proving Ground were only taken at a slow shutter speed, after the car had been pushed. To the delight of those involved in saving the Hurricane, Holden made contact with DaHarsh during the restoration.

It was then stuffed away in the wooden crate that was used to transport it, and stored in a Holden Service garage. Later, it was saved from Holden apprentices who were about to scrap it because they perceived it was no longer of any use. It was one of the inspirations that led me to car design.

I saw it the last time I was down there. The other executive who was prepared to help fund the return to perfection was Mark Reuss, then CEO of Holden, and now CEO of General Motors.

Recently retired chief engineer Rick Martin reconstructed the Hurricane from archival photographs, technical drawings, and the anecdotes of many people responsible for building the car, including designer DaHarsh, who significantly modified the scale model sent from Detroit.

Interior gauges, the steering wheel, the rearview camera, and even the reservoir for the oil-filled brakes were gone. Much of the car was simply recreated without adopting modern technologies, although the body was rebuilt using a more durable polyester resin, then repainted close to the original metal-flake orange. The original seats were strengthened and retrimmed, but most of the interior parts had to be built from scratch.

Not so when the seat is lowered and the roof and steering wheel begin their slow descent. With my head pressed hard against the roof and feet squished against the pedals, my contorted left leg can just engage the clutch.

The car moves off, slowly. Every movement is deliberate, measured. It must have given the GMH engineers a good deal of pleasure to be able to work on something purely experimental and without having to worry about costs. By exploring technologies now taken for granted, surely this car, better than most, answers the question: Why are concept cars of value to car makers?

1969 Holden Hurricane Concept