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1962 Vortex X2000 concept car!

1962 Vortex X 2000 This was the future according to one radical hot rod builder of the Sixties, Jerry Woodward. He called it the X-1970, which became the X-2000. You had to see it to not believe it. Jerry Woodward unveiled his home-built three-wheeler at the February 1962 Grand National Roadster Show in Oakland, California. It represented Woodward’s vision of a ‘car for the next century (that is) ready for radar roads’. The X-1970 Vortex, as it was dubbed initially. The car took six years to make, Woodward operating out of a car glass replacement facility in Provo, Utah, which he co-owned with his father. Basis for this remarkable machine was a tubular steel chassis with a 133in wheelbase. An overbored 345cu in Lincoln V8 was mounted in the rear of car and allied to a three-speed transmission. According to the media of the day, “the Vortex was packing a healthy 450bhp”. Rear suspension was by swing axles and Chrysler- derived torsion bars, the front end comprising a fork-type arrangement. #automobile #automotive #oldschool #classic #automotiveindustry #mercedesbenz300sl