70 Electra 6-wheel

Bad Boattail · Oct 1, 2013

Opa said: ↑

There is/was an Electra six wheel car for sale in The Netherlands a while back. But it doesn't looked like it was a factory option.
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I think you mean this model year 1978 LeSabre (6 x 2) with the commercial vehicle license plates and El Camino look.
The car/truck was for sale at Stoutjesdijk for years and years.

Here it is, I took a photo of it when it was attending the Saturday Night Cruise, somewhere in 1999:

The car still is in the Netherlands, the registration shows that it changed owners this year (May 30).
Last yearly technical inspection took place in 2004, so I guess it sits in a dealer's garage somewhere... :Smarty:

justalark said: ↑

[...] looks like a really bad photoshop job but I guess it isn't.
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It looks like a real car to me:

Craigslist seller: said:

1971 Buick HT 6 Wheel Factory Car (Hamburg, PA)

1971 Buick HT 2 Door
6 Wheel Factory Car in good Condition.
Rear 2 Wheels are Hydraulic.
71,000 miles.
1 of 2 left in the USA.
Runs & Drives great.
Older Restoration.
Call for info & make Offer.
Robert Stewart 610-562-**** or 484-651-****
Location: Hamburg, PA

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Read the comments on Bring a trailer :Comp:

Todd Dunning: said:

Actually, it’s still fake.

The photoshopping is just too egregious.
The tire diameter exceeds the wheel well size, wrong light direction and shadowing, painted-on fender lip.

There is a compromise possibly, where somebody tried to tack on some real-life pimpin’ ‘touch of class’ spare wheel holders on the side,
didn’t complete it, but photoshopped come truck tires on there to at least look finished.

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Kevin Preston: said:

Ok guys, I just had enough of the BSing and I called the guy myself.
I let him know I contribute to an online forum, and that there are alot of disbelievers and skeptics, but quite possibly someone interested in this car as well.

Either this guy is a crazy liar, or everything about the car is as follows.
BTW, he’s an older guy who was a Cadillac dealer for a number of years.
I can’t imagine he would spend 20 minutes talking to me and lie through his teeth.

According to Robert, he has had a devil of a time getting information as to the factory build of this, which he believes it to be and has some paperwork that seems to indicate this.
He got pointed into the direction of a body shop that supposedly did the final assembly of the car.
They told him that there was more than one made, and that this particular one had shown up with ALL the parts, including the skirts, wheels, etc, and the car had to be put together and detailed.

He believes these were prototypes.
The purpose?
To tow 10.000+ trailers safely with more rear traction.

The wheels originally “jacked down”, and he has the instructions on how to do that with a crank at the rear of the car.
Somewhere along the line, it was modified with hydraulics and there is a tank at each rear wheel.
The hydraulics are run by the power steering pump, so the car must be on to lower the wheels.
The unit does still work, a switch is depressed to the left of the brake pedal.
He also has all four skirts, both for the regular wheels and the supplemental ones.

The wheels look larger, but they are in fact all 15″, although the rear tires may have a different profile.

The rear axle is a “tag” axle in that it has no power.
His car came in from California, he bought it at an auction 27 years ago and no one wanted it.
He said he has shown it many, many times at very large car shows and always gets a crowd looking at it.
The other pictures I linked to do in fact show it at a show.

He believes they were tested in California, and knows another woman in CA who has one.
He also heard that the failure was in the transmission, hauling the extra weight and tire load on the car.
As with most prototypes, they are typically destroyed.

He was a nice guy, we had a nice chat, and this car is real.
Hope someone finds a home for something this wild and interesting.

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