OP's Puzzle #1579 - General Motors XP-500

Otto Puzzell · March 21, 2010, 04:19:58 AM

Know what it is?

Please, respond below and share your knowledge of what this is, and who built it.
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Oguerrerob · March 21, 2010, 07:28:39 PM

60's Chevrolet Corvette XP700. William "Bill" Mitchell

Otto Puzzell · March 22, 2010, 03:52:06 AM

Wrong decade; wrong car. None of those chaps is Bill Mitchell, either.

Otto Puzzell · March 29, 2010, 03:45:35 AM

Experts?

guido66 · March 30, 2010, 05:30:57 PM

GM or one of it's subsidiairies?

Otto Puzzell · March 30, 2010, 05:43:51 PM

Yes!

guido66 · March 30, 2010, 05:58:23 PM

Turbine powered?

metalshapes · March 30, 2010, 11:46:51 PM

Its one of the Firebird experimental concept cars.

XP-500

( the middle one in this pic.)

metalshapes · March 31, 2010, 02:03:28 AM

Found some more Info.

( not sure if it was ever called a Firebird, but it does seem to have the logo in the stitching under the hood.)

The General Motors XP-500 was the world's first free piston automobile. It was an experimental vehicle built by the General Motors Research Laboratories that was completed and announced to the public in 1956 after 14 months of development.

Otto Puzzell · March 31, 2010, 04:27:48 AM

That's the car! Quite similar in appearance to the Firebird, but as you've related, a much different form of motive power.

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OP's Puzzle #1579 - General Motors XP-500