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Post by Dan MacMillan on Apr 16, 2011 10:18:59 GMT -5
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Post by mj on Apr 16, 2011 11:15:05 GMT -5
The factory-built electric GT-II (The GTE) retailed for more than the Corvette of the same year.
Crazy, eh?
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Post by Jeff Troy on Apr 16, 2011 12:09:26 GMT -5
Hi, Dan,
Positively 1976.
In conversations with Bradley salespeople when I bought my kit in April of 1976, they suggested that I might prefer to have the soon-to-come GTII instead. They told me that the car wouldn't be available for "awhile," but that the wait wouldn't be too long.
I'm a model airplane hobbyist, and the Twoie looked like more of a project than I wanted, and much more like a car than the simplistic bop-around that had me interested from the start. I passed, and my GT kit was delivered in May (76). At that time, the Twoie had still not shipped.
Final scenario for me... I've driven my GT for 35 years and more than 600 thousand miles and I still love it (drove it another 100-or-so miles yesterday). Bought a virgin GTII kit in 2000, collected everything I needed to complete it, including air-co and a hot sound system, and never bothered to start working on it. After seven years of garage storage at $50 a month, I sold the whole thing -- including double glass all around -- for less than half of what I had in it, not counting the garage.
Just the same, I always appreciate a nice Twoie when I see one, and that's starting to happen a lot more around here lately -- but MJ's all black scheme is still the best I've seen for that body style.
Warmest regards,
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