Hello Hurricane
12/25/2011
190 km/h fast, weighing 700 kg and just 1.12 meters high was the Hurrikan, which Gerhard Höller produced in Austria at the beginning of the 1970s and offered as a kit or finished vehicle.
The kit cost from 5,000 Swiss francs or 19,500 schillings, but you still had to get hold of a VW chassis and a Porsche 95 hp engine if you really wanted to reach 190 km/h. Otherwise, a normal car would do. Otherwise, a normal Volkswagen 44 hp boxer would do, which was still good enough for 155 km/h. A finished vehicle could be ordered for 80,000 to 85,000 schillings (the equivalent of 13,000 to 14,000 francs).
The design came from the designer Höller himself, who had worked as a decorator before his car career. It was certainly inspired by the Ford GT 40, as the Automobil Revue 25/1971 correctly assumed. At the time, the enthusiastic car builder Höller in Leoben reported that 8 units had already been sold. Incidentally, he had made a name for himself with his first model, the Strato S4.
For fans, the pictures are stored in high resolution in the Zwischengas archive.
