Topic: Solved - NEH 2972: GDT Speedster 2010

[Carnut]

Identify what this car is together with when it dates from for 1 piont:

ANYONE FOUND GIVING ANSWERS OBTAINED BY USING GOOGLE SEARCH BY IMAGE MAY BE BANNED FOR AN INDETERMINATE PERIOD!

[Mazdafreak]

I'm thinking its some sort of Aston Martin design study, but I can't find anything.

[Carnut]

I'm thinking its some sort of Aston Martin design study, but I can't find anything.

Not an Aston..

[Carnut]

Experts?

[DeAutogids]

It does not look like a real vehicle. More like a "rendering" of some sorts with Aston Martin in mind... UK?

[Carnut]

It does not look like a real vehicle. More like a "rendering" of some sorts with Aston Martin in mind... UK?

I thought it did look quite real.. But you're right, it is a rendering.
As I said before there's no Aston connection, but it is from the UK, yes - nor is it from the UK (edited..)

[DeAutogids]

It is a good rendering, but the lights and wheels did not convince me. Planned for production though?

[Carnut]

It is a good rendering, but the lights and wheels did not convince me. Planned for production though?

I think that might have been the idea but this has so far not been built..

[fyreline]

"2010 GDT Speedster" proposal . . . I think. Maybe not. The original GDT Speedster was apparently supposed to use a 1994 Corvette drive line, and the project began in February 2000. The vehicle was completed in November 2005. It was sold to Texas lawyer and car collector John O'Quinn in February 2007. O'Quinn was killed in a car crash in October 2009, and his eclectic car collection was sold off - so I suppose that car still exists somewhere although I haven't been able to find out too much more about it. Most of the stuff online concerning the GDT Speedster shows a very different car, but the puzzle car is pictured on GDT's web site and identified on top of the photo as the "2010 GDT Speedster", but a line under the photo of the puzzle car states "Rendering of a generic vehicle by team stylist Craig Sandvig" so I don't really know for sure what we're looking at. Anyway, the GDT in the "GDT Speedster" stands for the Gene Dickirson Team. Like many of the team members, Gene Dickirson was a retired Ford Motor Co. engineer. Apparently the original (2006?) version of the car was intended to sell for $350,000. Yikes.

[Carnut]

It is the 2010 GDT Speedster, yes.
The 2006 GDT Speedster was one of my puzzles a couple of months ago, but it seems this car is just an illustration of what GDT can produce if someone wants a one-off car built.
It's used on their website to show the processes involved in producing such a car for well-off clients.

[fyreline]

Thanks for the clarification. I guess as a traditionalist I expected anything named a "speedster" to be an open car (like their 2006 version). Must be that earlier car is the one that the late Mr. O'Quinn bought. The GDT website makes it sound like they are still in business, and theoretically could still build the puzzle car . . . If you threw enough money at them.