Efijy reproduction for sale on E-bay

craigsek · Post by **craigsek** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:09 pm

Just found this on e-bay USA, dont know if is fair dinkum but have a look anyway, wonder what Holden thinks about it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Holden-C ... eafb#v4-25

mrs ratbox · Post by **mrs ratbox** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:31 pm

wonder if it's some type of scam, you'de think there was some type of copyright on the car, especially using pics of the actuall car to advertise

V8EK4us · Post by **V8EK4us** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:48 pm

Cooooooooooolllll.........not!! check the pics, pic 2 it is right hand drive and pic 4 it is left hand drive (with the Holden Lion on the steering wheel arse about!! Cheap considering how much the Shieks (and that's not the Shiek from scrubby creek) where paying GMH for one............

Evilbay strikes again by the looks of it.................

Brodie · Post by **Brodie** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:34 pm

Check out the pedals....

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:26 pm

Brodie wrote:Check out the pedals....

good pickup Brodie!!

ye old mirror tricks

wot179 · Post by **wot179** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:24 am

I cant see them scratch building these for only 180,000.

V8EK4us · Post by **V8EK4us** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:24 am

Brodie wrote:Check out the pedals....

Nice spotto Brodie, I was also suggesting that the pic was mirrored with the comment about the Lion on the steering wheel (it's arse about)...... but I didn't pick the pedals

tm 50 · Post by **tm 50** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:03 pm

My cousin Richard was the designer, he has done extremely well travelling the world showing it off

FB MAD · Post by **FB MAD** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:08 pm

Just a pity the GM bean counters wouldn't give it a go ahead on a world wide production basis.

From all reports I've read, it was a world wide winner with car enthusiasts willing to open their wallets!!

Guess we'll just be stuck with bland looking shopping trolley cars.

tm 50 · Post by **tm 50** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:10 pm

He was telling me that they were offered 1mill a car by some very rich people, but even then it would not be feasible to produce with the tooling costs etc

FB MAD · Post by **FB MAD** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:20 pm

I think the GM bean counters were the tools on the non production decision.

Devilrod · Post by **Devilrod** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:39 pm

FB MAD wrote:I think the GM bean counters were the tools on the non production decision.

No just GM in general lately. The Camaro nearly killed GMH... Commodore platform wasn't what the US wanted, so it was all redesigned.

My mate did well, he helped sort all the bugs out of effijy and got to do some laps of the prooving ground in it, then last year got a redundancy.

tm 50 · Post by **tm 50** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:41 pm

Just got an email from my cousin, Gm's legal team are well on to it, but they believe the guy is just speculating

oldnek · Post by **oldnek** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:13 pm

V8EK4us wrote:
Brodie wrote:Check out the pedals....
Nice spotto Brodie, I was also suggesting that the pic was mirrored with the comment about the Lion on the steering wheel (it's arse about)...... but I didn't pick the pedals

Gaz, your right! It is mirrored, left hand drive vehicles have the same pedal arrangement as right hand drive.

John

Ados · Post by **Ados** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:33 pm

Just had a chat with my mate Google and came up with this:

http://www.formulaautomotive.com/Home_Page.php

After checking out the site and watching the "process" here:

http://www.formulaautomotive.com/process.html

Unless I wanted a rendering of a rendered car in a rendered garage, I am not convinced I would be handing over 180k to these fine gentlemen, nor am i convinced that the Holden legal minds should be worried about them turning out multiple Efijy's anytime soon...