Top Gear Australia Takes Holden Efijy Out For A Spin: Video
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Some of us would do unspeakable things for a chance to drive what is indisputably the greatest hot rod ever built. And we don’t know what the lads at Top Gear Australia had to do, but we can only imagine — because they got to spend some quality time with the Holden Efijy — a hot rod from the present that harkens to the past.
Designed and built in Australia, the Efijy is a tribute to the Holden FJ series — see the resemblance? It rides on a Corvette platform with a supercharged LS2, looks stunning and is, at the same time, fully functional. In effect, it’s how 2011 would have looked like in 1953.
Enjoy the video below courtesy of Top Gear Australia:
We wholeheartedly agree with TPG in saying that you can’t call yourself an auto enthusiast and not like this car.
now THAT’S a beauty!!
That is a work of art!
Bad to the Bone turned up to eleven!
Wow. That is amazing. I should move to Australia.
Looks fantastic when can I order one.
Unfortunately, never as it’s only a concept.
Yuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Oh wait, but there’s more
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For those that wonder why………………………………
Wait, what?
Or, you could get yourself an FJ Holden and a Corvette and MAKE one!
That wold be nice, but would obviously take some skill, money, connections or an opportune combination of both to pull off. But it would be well worth it.
Actually, just a C6 Corvette, a Supercharger from either Harrop Engineering or GM Motorsport, an FJ Holden which you’d have to widen and lengthen the body a bit and you use the floorpan from the ‘Vette instead of the FJ one. Or if you want something even meaner, use said engine with a six speed manual in a Torana hatchback (LX or UC) with A9X bodykit.
It’s the body work I was referring to. That’s some tough stuff, especially getting the chassis mounting points on, well, point.
Actually, the bodywork would be pretty simple, hence using the Corvette floorpan. Just have to widen and lengthen an FJ body which I think there might be kits to do that, otherwise anyone who makes custom cars for a living could do it (Boyd Coddington project, maybe?)
From what I’ve seen, making body mods will be tough. A couple of guys here have been trying to make a wide body Vette with no luck using all kinds of steel. The tough part is making the shoulder curve without thinning out the metal where its density is below a certain amount. But that’s just from what I’ve seen. I’m sure it can be done in the right hands…