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Gene Van Grecken's masterpiece, the star exhibit of the 1973 Sydney Motor Show
Photo 1 - Shows the car at the Sydney convention plus the dash
Photo 2 - Comalco Sighting
Photo 3 - Black Box for Engine
Photo 4 - Fluid Pump
Photo 5 - Van Grecken at Work
Photo 6 - Van Grecken with Steam Generator
Photo 7 - Van Grecken with Engine
Photo 8 - Father/Son with GVANG + GVANG rear view + Generator
Photo 9 - GVANG in front of workshop plus shell pictures
Photo 10 and 11 - Article in Motor Week Sept. 1972
Partial detail
Last ones # 12 and 13 (next post) Article about GVANG published in Morganite Review Vol. 1, No. 7
Nice! The bookstore at which I work has a customer with a collection of older steam-cars, mostly Whites, and Stanleys. I'll show hime this. Any idea what happened to the car?
Lucky #13 and thats it!
This car looks awesome, but it also looks like someone crossed a Corvette with a GT40.
How come no one's heard anything about this car? Does that mean that he failed the 200 mph attempt?
How quickly could the engine build up steam pressure?
Was it practical to use?
Information please!
looks like a miura mixed with a corvette
[QUOTE=ferrarifreak013;768359]looks like a miura mixed with a corvette[/QUOTE]
When i first saw it, it remindd me of a Miura
What could have been...but on the other hand, steam is very hard to control, if it got in an accident or something went wrong, the results could be very bad indeed.
I viewed the Gvang at the Sydney motor show (in about 1972) when I was 12 years old, and proudly obtained a brochure at the time.
Other vehicles that took my attention way back then (though not related) were the prototype Mazda Cosmo (not the 1977 RX5, which was released elsewhere under the same name), an Austin Healey 3000, and a turbine powered Volvo (don't like Volvos of the era, but the turbine fitment interested me).
Anyhow, unfortunately my Gvang brochure got lost... but some years later I obtained a motoring magazine with an article on it. Don't know where it is now, but it will be somewhere in my collection!
I was recently telling someone about the Gvang (as I have continued to do over the years... to people that had never heard of it), and decided to search the net for any info.
And was pleased to find others did know of this fabulous vehicle and engine, and appreciated its wonder... though I cannot find any recent info or follow-up on 2004/2005 forums.
Does anyone know of any new info or developments?
I'd be very interested.
Incidentally, the NSU Ro80 is another vehicle of interest (of which I have 3)... and a glossy brochure!
Thanks.
Regards,
Brad
yup, i agree... accident cases are seen frequently because of extreme steam level..
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