you think that is impressive? you should see the one john katsanis built from a stock fj sedan over a weekend to raffle off! - chopped sectioned tudored the thing is wild! hopefully one of my australian counterparts can help me out with a pic last time i saw if it was in bare metal with moon discs on it but i hear its much more progressed then that now, the effigy proves there are still people out there with a brain to desgn some jaw dropping cars.
Man I saw Choppers FJ and that thing is fukn out of this world. I wish i could make to the kustoms Nat where he chops a car in a weekend but work is to bussy that time of year. But the GM's latest would have to be the best thing thats come out of there design studio. Well if it came out i would like to buy one and put some white walls on it.
this is choppers car.......pics arent real good, had a dodgey camera on the day.......It was a real FJ to start with.....Bert
someone here should have some good pics .......had a freind that was under the belief they were the same car, had to educate him .......I think choppers car was on rodders life{tv show} anyway......Bert
Yeah the EFIJY was done a while back now, I have a powerpoint slideshow on the full production and specs. If you want it email me. Also I'm going to Johns tonight so I'll take some photo's of his gear there, including the FJ. These were the last pix I took of it.
And some older ones from the early days... Carps or someone has the pictures from when this was started at the kustom nats.
that is some serious metalwork. Aussie's- Educate me on Holdens. what year and model is that body? I love it...
Yeah its a pretty small car but theres surprisingly quite a bit of room inside considering all the chopping and channelling. Original length is 4370mm and width 1702mm. That holden in particular is the FJ model, the second model made. Check out this site for basic info on the early holdens- http://www.earlyholdens.com/intro.html
Actually,caddy rat Holdens are strictly speaking American. In the 1940's The General ( G.M ) bought a little body building company called the Holden Motor Body Works. They then started making cars and proudly introduced Australia's first mass produced homegrown car. Well that's what aussies were told at the time (and most still believe). The reality for Australia is all the big decisions are made by GM, we are allowed to create and test because relative to USA we are a small population and a good testing ground. Any duds are quickly forgotten and our successes are rebadged and exported, mainly to USA, Middle East, Europe and New Zealand. You definatley know you're a subsiduary when (depending on the business receipts for the year) between 85% - 96% of profits are returned to Head Office. Of course few taxes are paid in Oz. I will of course be regarded as a Heretic, penalty? Head on a fence or burned at the stake? btw Ford is incorporated in Oz and is known as Ford Australia, whereas Holden is known as GM Holden. Ford pays tax and only repatriates ( I don't know the figures) a small amount. Get it Hot! Hit it Hard!
this is a stock [ looking ] FX holden the first car to be produced by GMH [ general motors holden ] it is very similar to the FJ only trim garnishes are diferent
Ok I went down there last night and yeah not much has changed. John said he wants to get back into it sometime this year but theres alot of other shit going on around that place! Still looks good though-
I just got back from working the auto show all week. By working, I basically mean taking every opportunity to gawk at and drool over this thing. Believe me, pics do NOT do it justice. They say this thing had zero corporate budget and that it was an all volunteer team that put it together. Think they could 'volunteer' to come help out in the garage sometime?!
"EFIJY is also aimed at the legions of custom car and hot rod enthusiasts out there whose appetites arent generally met in the concept car arena." Holden Chief Designer and EFIJY project leader Richard Ferlazzo
Here are some more pics of this car. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.conceptcar.ee/holden/efijy/image03.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.conceptcar.ee/holden/efijy/index.html&h=450&w=600&sz=23&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=iA-DANUubNmx-M:&tbnh=101&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Defijy%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX Not sure what language is in this link, but the car speaks for itself.
Really!!! Rumours floating around here say in excess of 1 mil! That coming from some of the guys who got to it 6 months after it was built to make it run properly. I'll see if I still have the pics of my mate Jason sitting in it. His words were "its not that fast but rides real good". They got to take it around the proving grounds at Lang Lang in Victoria, Australia (where all new GMH products get tested at some stag in there life)..
Would have cost closer to 2 mil for GMHA to build it the way they did. They had a professional studio make a feature film of the cars design and construction, that doesn't happen without the people who approve budget and expenditure knowing what the money is being used for. It took up a lot of time and space in their design & modeling studio too, bloody hard to hide from the boss.
efigy is cool but the fx is still started by blokes, at a car show for old cars- it rocks! I've only seen the picks in the local mags and around the place, theres been a fair few of these sectioned custom fx's and the next model fj's around and they where all cool - well some where seriously goofy but all where individul and thats what counts- yes this is my shite arse aussie oppinon! tyler- perth
nobody said it was'nt chevy (maybe corvette) running gear i was more refering to the fact that it's a custom one off body and not a modified FJ
The FX-FJ Holdens were the birthplace of Aussie custom/hot cars in the 50's and 60's (and still today, but much harder to get) Incidentally, they're not recognised by the Australian Street Rod Federation as 'acceptable' classification vehicles as they don't have separate chassis, aren't American car based, and were built after 1948. When I was growing up in the 60's they were plentiful and cheap. They went reasonably well, handled reasonably well, and the inline OHV, cast iron six could be made to go like the clappers if you worked hard on it. I saw these things run 13's at the drags with the souped up original 147ci 'grey' motor in them. They were chopped, channeled over early Ford chassis, sectioned, tudor'd, made into convertibles, leadsledded, raced, they were the basic ingredient for Aussie hot car builders for a decade or more. Cheers, Glen.
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