GM WAS on to something, at least...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/GM-concept-/250864031580?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item3a68a9575c#v4-39

Errrrmmmm.... say what, chap?

In reply to 92CelicaHalfTrac:

I want it.

I couldn't imagine trying to find some of the parts, though!

Wonder what it's capable of? I would be ALL for a Typhoon-esque Beretta!

If I had an icecube's chance in hell at registering that thing I'd be all over it. What a sleeper!

Carpetmuncher wrote: If I had an icecube's chance in hell at registering that thing I'd be all over it. What a sleeper!

There's a VIN on it, and you get bill of sale. I don't think it would be THAT bad.

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote:

Carpetmuncher wrote: If I had an icecube's chance in hell at registering that thing I'd be all over it. What a sleeper!

There's a VIN on it, and you get bill of sale. I don't think it would be THAT bad.

There's no title. If you live in a state with tough title laws like MA, then you can't register it without a title and it's a major-league PITA to get a replacement title.

I guess you could get a junker Beretta with a clean title, swap VIN plates, and hope the cops don't find out.

Oh my word.

How did? Who built? Where has it been hiding?

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: There's a VIN on it, and you get bill of sale. I don't think it would be THAT bad.

If that's a picture of the VIN that is there, it looks like the VIN plate was made at a trophy shop! Not sure the DMV would be too impressed with it.

oh good god

I'd guess 3.8L and a Pontiac 6000 trans/rear drive train if they used off the shelf parts.

On second thought, what you can see of the valve cover/oil fill port, looks like a 2.8l. And they've got 2 snails on it. I thought they all killed themselves on their own, let alone boosted.

• Lee

That's past sleeper and into Coma territory.

I actually was just thinking of Beretta's yesterday. Been ages since I've seen one. Thought they were pretty much junk when they were new. A friend of mine in high school got one new and thought it was a good thing, but I preferred my old beat up rusted out GLC.

Add a couple turbos and AWD though and then it gets more interesting.

My first two cars were Beretta's. The second had a 3100 V6, which became a huge pile of junk at around 90,000 miles. I remember reading of at least two different experimental Beretta's back in the day. I actually found myself looking for a Z26 a few months ago. It was my high school dream car...not sure why. They stopped making them in 1996, the year I graduated high school. Anyway, I slapped myself in the face when I came to the fact I was actually searching for another one.

Huh. That's kinda. Weird in a cool way, I guess.

I always thought the Beretta looked kinda cool back in the day, but that was right about the time that anything FWD really ticked me off. Now that I mention it, anything FWD still kinda ticks me off.

That is the experimental Beretta from GM. They actually made it themselves and it lived in the skunkworks warehouse (where a lot of other cool E36 M3 lives). I would have figured they would have shredded it.

you might not be able to title that car, but it would make an awesome parts donor for another Beretta- or better yet, a Corsica..

Hmm, give it the Beretta z-car treatment (34?), and it would be liveable. I always thought Berettas and Corsicas looked dumbtarded as base vehicles.

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: That is the experimental Beretta from GM. They actually made it themselves and it lived in the skunkworks warehouse (where a lot of other cool E36 M3 lives). I would have figured they would have shredded it.

GM auctioned off a bunch of skunkwork and development cars a while back. None of them had valid VINs if I remember correctly, so there's pretty much no way to legally license them for street use.

Never even heard of it..

That would be easy as hell to register here in GA...

You could register it in Maine, sell it to yourself in any other state and get a title.

its cool, but be careful not to break it!

Was sold for $8250 at Barret Jackson Palm Beach in '09. The listing is a typo, it's got a 3.3L making 385 HP. http://www.barrett-jackson.com/application/onlinesubmission/lotdetails.aspx?ln=704.1&aid=284

Scan from an old Hot Rod magazine article about it: http://www.berettastuff.com/reference/proto3.shtml

There was also a V8 AWD, and V8 FWD with a "mystery V8" http://www.berettastuff.com/reference/proto1.shtml

http://www.berettastuff.com/reference/proto2.shtml

• Lee

Here's some guy's Photobucket album of it at Palm Beach:

• Lee

I would so drive that. Very cool. It just goies to show you that GM can make interesting stuff, they just do not have the will to sell it.