1973 Concept Cars
Battery Box Experimental Electric
The Battery Box is a home-built, semi-streamlined car created to attack the World Speed Record for electric-powered vehicles. Using the latest technology in both motorbattery combinations and vehicle design, Roger Hedlund of Sunnyvale, CA, achieved......
Chevrolet Aerovette Concept
Back in the 70s, it became apparent to General Motors that their Corvette Stingray would have to be replaced after almost twenty years in production on the same chassis. GM is aware that Corvette drivers are a very demanding group, and did not want......
Chevrolet XP 898 Concept
The 1973 XP898 Concept was a project car using Chevrolet Vega mechanicals. It was built with a frameless fiberglass foam sandwich body and chassis in four main sections - floor pan, firewall, upper front and upper rear. The result was a body that was......
DeTomaso Montella Concept
This car is a concept car but very similar to the Pantera. It is a fully functional prototype outfitted with a 5.7-liter V8 engine and a five-speed ZF gearbox. The Pantera had just been introduced and was met with much excitement and praise. The......
Mohs Safarikar
This unusual vehicle is one of three prototypes built by Mohs Seaplane of Madison, Wisconsin, owned by Mr. Bruce Baldwin Mohs. Only two examples survive. Built specifically as an African Safari vehicle, it never saw duty there. The chassis builder......
1972 Concept Cars
BMW Turbo Concept
The BMW Turbo was a combination of design study and technological guineapig and had a fi nely developed sense of active and passive safety. BMW presented the Turbo in 1972 as the worlds first safety-oriented sports car. And this research laboratory......
Maserati Boomerang
The public was first shown the Maserati Boomerang Concept in 1971 when it was on display at the Turin Motor Show. The display was non-functional and it would take a year before the workable prototype would be shown. In 1972 at the Geneva Salon, the......