5 Australian Sports Cars You Won't Believe Exist!

5 Australian Sports Cars You Won't Believe Exist! These 5 cars should not exist. One had technology from the future, one was barely real, and one almost became Australia's own dream car. But they all prove that Australian engineers were willing to build the impossible with whatever tools they had available. The Ascort TSV 1300 GT came from a Czechoslovakian engineer named Mirek Craney who decided to build his own sports car in Sydney during the late 1950s. He used Volkswagen parts but created something completely different, with a fiberglass body and safety features that were way ahead of its time. The car was light, fast enough for the era, and looked incredibly polished. But only about 12 to 20 cars were ever built before the business ran out of money. It proved Australia could make refined sports cars, even if nobody had the cash to buy them. The Bolwell Mk V was smarter about the problem. Instead of trying to sell completed cars to rich buyers, Bolwell sold kits and body packages to regular people who could build their own cars at home. They used common Holden engines that people actually knew how to fix, making the whole project realistic. About 75 were built between 1964 and 1967, which might sound small but was huge for an Australian specialist maker. The Mk V showed that local sports cars didn't have to be impossible dreams. Then came the Holden Hurricane in 1969, a concept car that looked like it came from the year 2000. It had doors that opened like a canopy, mid-engine placement, a camera-based rear-view system, digital displays, and a navigation system called Pathfinder. Holden was experimenting with ideas that wouldn't become normal for decades. The car almost vanished until it was restored years later and saved for museums. The Buchanan Coupe from the 1950s was built almost entirely from fiberglass as one giant shell. Nobody knows exactly what happened to it, but the technology behind it spread through Australian special car builders. The company eventually built over 150 fiberglass bodies for other builders and competition cars. Finally, the Hartnett Pacific was supposed to be Australia's own national car. Laurence Hartnett wanted to build affordable, practical cars for ordinary Australians after World War II. The problem was a supply company that never delivered the steel panels on time. The business collapsed, but about 135 Hartnett cars were completed. The Pacific now sits in museums as a symbol of Australian ambition. ____ We do not own the footages/images compiled in this video. It belongs to individual creators or organizations that deserve respect. By creatively transforming the footages from other videos, this work qualifies as fair use and complies with U.S. copyright law without causing any harm to the original work's market value. COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. _____