This apparently was an early sixties test vehicle to test the idea of small size front drive cars, the front-mounted engine was an opposed four of 1900cc, my quick calc says 2/3 of a Corvair motor. I see certain similarities to the Cheetah and the later Opel GT. The chassis below seems to be a chassis prototype with different (temporary?) windshield. And aren't those Volkswagen wheels?
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So...
Proof of concept with a flat 4 engine and VW wheels. I'm not anywhere familiar enough with Beetles to be able to tell whether that's a VW engine. As delivered, the engine would rotate in the wrong direction, but Porsche made it work in the 914. Hmmm.
And yes, definitely Cheetah. Bill Thomas apparently was unofficially tied in with GM.
rdguy
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