When gull-wing, butterfly, and scissor doors just aren't fancy enough.
Introducing: the Face/Off.
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When gull-wing, butterfly, and scissor doors just aren't ~~fancy~~ inconvenient enough.
FTFY
Also "Face-off" deserves all the upvotes.
The good thing is, if it catches on fire it's easy to- oh you're already dead. Never mind.
My thoughts exactly
I'm sure moving the entire Dashboard and every cable going there is a great idea
I don't think there is much cabling in the dashboard of that 1970s exotic.
I’d bet the gauges and dash are still in the vehicle.
Wouldn't that be mechanically driven from this era?
Yea, speedo would be a spinning steel wire in a sheath, everything else possibly be electric (tach, oil pressure/sensor, if it even had that).
Oil pressure was actually an air tube, and coolant temp was a copper pipe. You had to be careful not to kink them or your gauges wouldn’t work.
Though the 70s was the transition away from that late 60s tech.
A lot of it was still analog, which is so much worse. You'd still have the basics, speed, ignition, engine temp, oil, alternator (?), RPM, light switches.
Edit: steering wheel...
That seems to be part of the steering column? But I'm not sure.
It ~~lifts~~ pivots up.
https://vistapointe.net/holden-hurricane.html
Oh shit, that's a Holden? I was expecting a European brand.
Yeah how tf are they able to move the steering wheel like that?!
Universal joints, which steering columns already have. Just need one that's in the right spot with the necessary range of motion.
Alternatively, a ring/pinion gearbox could be designed to let the pinion rotate on one axis without issue.
I assume they used a rack/pinion setup with u-joints.
How do you get out if the car flips in an accident?
Looks a lot like a Sterling Nova. I wonder what "hurricane" means?
Fun fact: the donor car for a Nova kit is an old Volkswagen Beetle (IIRC)
Edit: I had no idea about the Holden Hurricane! So at least two designers thought the canopy was much cooler than it was inconvenient 😂
Keep your hands in your lap or it might pinch a leg off.