Intercoast T2 GTP
Car of the Day #280: 1993 Intercoast T2 GTP – Central planning
“Why don’t they just…?”
What? Why don’t they just what?
Throw giant axles, wheels, tires, and suspension under a normal passenger truck and drive over cars with it?
Spend a small fortune on building generations of urban microcars with interchangeable bodies?
Take a Ford Taurus sedan, put its punchy, Yamaha-derived 6-cylinder engine behind the passenger compartment, and shrink the width of its upper body to provide tandem seating, for less drag at high speed?
1993 Intercoast T2 GTP • source unknown / Mel Francis
About that last one, the car with upper hinged doors on the left side of its body, steel spaceframe construction, seating for a driver and “1-2 passengers”, complete with a full-sized trunk? From the builder, Mel Francis’ Flickr profile, it states:
“This was a self-inspired proposal for a centrally driven touring car, developed in 1993, using Ford Taurus SHO mechanicals. It is specifically a Grand Touring Prototype, hence the letter designation.
“The engine is mounted midships and utilizes a full size luggage compartment in the rear, with storage for a full-size road spare in the forward compartment.”
(The Intercoast T2 GTP would have been the perfect Cannonball car, no?)
Additional information added online by Francis at a social media site I won’t link to, sorry — ask me for the link if you want it — who says:
