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English: The 1967 Hurst Baja Boot on display at the 2021 Greenwich Concours d'Elegance. Date: 24 October 2021: Source: Own work: Author: Mr.choppers: Camera location: 41° 01′ 03.5″ N, 73° 37′ 34.83″ W.
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Pricing was set at $250,000 for the two-door and $275,000 for the four-door, but what makes both of these options special is that a central driving position would mean decent space and visibility.
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This is the "Baja Boot", a 450hp, 4×4 dune buggy built by Vic Hickey - one of GM's top automotive engineers in the late 1960s. GM had a "no-racing" policy in place at the time so Hickey and Drino Miller built the Baja Boot in just 26 days under cover of darkness in Hurst, Michigan.
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The Baja Boot did not finish the race again. It suffered from a broken transmission witch left it disabled 237 miles into the competition.. For the uninitiated, the Boot is the intersection of hot-rod design, GM parts, Hurst Fabrication and unadulterated swagger. And what he plans to do with the Boot is nothing short of a miracle. In 2019 he.
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Category:Hurst Baja Boot From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository Media in category "Hurst Baja Boot" The following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total. 1967 Hurst Baja Boot at Greenwich 2021, rear right.jpg 4,716 × 3,384; 8.55 MB Baja Boot at Lime Rock, front right side.jpg 4,072 × 2,768; 6.51 MB
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With a base price around $100,000, the Boot will offer a 5.0-liter naturally aspirated V-8, 20 inches of suspension travel, the ability to switch between rear- and four-wheel drive, and a.
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Glickenhaus would launch a modern production version of the Baja Boot in 2020, with a price tag of around $250,000. The new Boot isn't just a fun retro throwback, it is a serious off-road racing machine that won the Class 2 race in the 2020 Baja 1000, beating the factory-backed Ford Bronco R by over five hours.
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The history of the Baja Boot 1 is steeped in automotive intrigue. Backed by Hurst Shifters, Hickey, with the help of Drino Miller and Al Napp, started the Baja Boot project at the GM "Skunkworks" in Detroit. As the word got out about the proposed race car, GM management objected due to the "no racing" policy then in effect.
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FYI: Steve McQueen was the originally owner of the Hurst Baja Boot. Interestingly, the driver's seat will be center-mounted, and interior amenities such as heat and a/c will be offered.
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General Motors engineer and off-road vehicle specialist Vic Hickey, along with a bit of help and funding from Hurst Shifters built two of what were to become known as the Baja Boot in a tucked away corner of GM's factories, with the intent to compete in the first running. A transmission failure pulled the plug on the first run of the boot.
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Published August 24, 2010 Comments ( 65) James Glickenhaus, builder of the likely-to-be-fabulously-fast Ferrari P4/5 Competizione, bought Steve McQueen's famous Hurst Baja Boot race buggy two.
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The Road Boot will sport 19 inches of suspension travel, while the Baja has 22 inches to play with. Although the Boot was modeled after Steve McQueen's Hurst Baja Boot, SCG built this vehicle in.
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The very first Mexican 1000 Rally featured a purpose-built racer dubbed the Hurst Baja Boot, brought to life by designer Vic Hickey. A General Motors engineer and desert racing fan, Hickey transformed his preliminary sketches into an actual vehicle in less than a month.
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The very first Mexican 1000 Rally featured a purpose-built racer dubbed the Hurst Baja Boot, brought to life by designer Vic Hickey. A General Motors engineer and desert racing fan, Hickey.
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The benchmark was the Hurst Baja Boot off-road racing car, which was raced by Steve McQueen in the late 1960s. [1] Following on from this vehicle, the SCG Boot gained distinctive proportions with clearly defined wheel arches, wide-tread off-road tires and quadruple round headlamps set back in line with the windshield.
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With 36×12.4×16-inch Goodyear Baja Special tires, the Baja Boot boasted nine inches of wheel travel and could reach speeds upward of 140 mph. As impressive and innovative as the Baja Boot was, an even more impressive fact is that Hickey was able to build it in less than 30 days. Image: Brinkworth Design Race Career