Holden Concept Car... OT

[Oldguy48]

I kinda stumbled across this, and thought it might be of interest to some here. No, it's not a Mopar, but take a close look, and you'll see features and styling that resembles a wide variety of American cars of yesteryear. And some features I've never seen on anything else before. Hope you find it interesting.

[Niel Hoback]

Yeah, it kinda looks like Harley Earl's Buick "Y-Job"

[Frank Elder]

Holden is the Austrailan version of Chevy isn't it?

[greg g]

Or the renewed Y job that buick came out with 4 or 5 years ago. Holden is was GM's counter part down under. Current Pontiac GTO is a Holden..

[Andydodge]

Yep, Holden is Oz's Chev, the FJ was the updated version of the Holden car that was introduced in 1948, the 1948 model had a vertical grille but basically the same car till 1953 when the FJ series was introduced, the original Holden design was ex US Chev with some Opel influences.....the Efigy custom is a nice update.......andyd

[Cpt.Fred]

the original body is based on the opel kapitän (love that name:D) and it's a beauty! holden as well as opel.

i guess it's one like this:

http://www.autobild.de/ir_img/59987046_49f6630eb2.jpg

or at least closely:rolleyes:

there is a holden in germany, seen it once. very nice car and very exotic around here!

[Plymouthy Adams]

I remember when in Germany that one of the larger Opels (successor to the Kapitan', probably a Diplomat) had the 283 Chevy V8 installed..friend drove one...being the smaller car it was well overpowered..

[Manuel in Oz]

Opel and Holden used Chev V8's. Holden still does. They were sold as Pontiac G8's and Firebird/GTO's in the US. Are there any new Pontiacs left that are for sale still? They would be a damn good buy. As they are quite a good car.

I think they wanted to sell the ute over there as well.

Cheers

Manuel in Oz

[Normspeed]

The Holden Efigy was a beautiful job, nothing out of place.

Too bad the Holden GTO was not real popular in the states. I think GTO purists were looking for something that looked more like the originals. I hear the Holdens performed real well.

[Plymouthy Adams]

performance was never the question..longivity is the problem..most all GTO owners I have seen are on their second or third engine..the engines are just not up to par..there is more to 0-60MPH than meets the eye..getting home after the run is important also

[BobT-47P15]

Kinda reminds you of this Buick Blackhawk concept car.

Link to an article about it. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://robson.m3rlin.org/cars/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/buick_blackhawk_concept-_2000.jpg&imgrefurl=http://robson.m3rlin.org/cars/2000-buick-blackhawk-concept-car/&h=900&w=1200&sz=182&tbnid=wuAqCdC_bXhULM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbuick%2Bconcept%2Bcars&hl=en&usg=__KKnbKdoBwSypSljxjGt2hbbhbY8=&ei=Oh-jSqbLL8exlAeshbj2CA&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=4&ct=image