Motorcycle
Motorcycles are considered to be the most affordable form of motorized transport in the various parts of the world and even for most of the world’s population. It is also said that they are also the most common type of the motor vehicle. There are about 200 million motorcycles which include the mopeds, motor scooters and even the other powered two- and three-wheelers in worldwide or you can say that about 33 motorcycles per 1000 people.
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Vector Motors
1971, a year when India was fighting the Bangladesh war, a youngster by the name of Gerald Wiegart, fresh from college teamed up with a man named Lee Brown to create a design house called Vehicle Design Force. The first car that they conceptualized and built was called The Vector. The first Vector was just a body without an engine. It was announced that the Wankel engine from the Mercedes-Benz C111 would be used in the car. Although the car appeared in Motor Trend after its debut, it was never seen on the roads since.
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Fuldamobil
The Fuldamobil is a series of small cars which first made an appearance in 1950 in Germany. These small cars are said to have inspired the term “bubble cars”. This car is also called the Nobel, the Attica, the Bambi and the Hans Vahaar. The number of cars produced was relatively low but they attracted enough attention to see licensed manufacturing on four continents.
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Aston Martin DB5
Aston Martin is a name that does not really need an introduction as it has been known always for high performance sports cars over nine decades now. The Aston Martin DB5 was introduced in 1963 as an improved DB4. The DB stands for David Brown who headed Aston Martin from 1947-1972 and the DB series was in his honour.
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Jaguar E–Type
Jaguar e-type had ranked first in the list of “100 most beautiful cars” of all time by daily telegraph in March 2008. Particularly a sports car – jaguar e type was a British automobile manufactured by jaguar between 1961 and 1974. It is also called as the jaguar XK-E in us. It has also ranked first in the list of ‘Top Sports Car of 1960’s’ in the Sports Car International Magazine in 2004.
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Volvo P1800
It was very hard to believe that Volvo, a company who built luxury cars for day to say travel could ever build a sports convertible. The Swedish company spent the whole Fifties to design and engineer a sports car. In 1961, Volvo brought in the P1800 and a new addition was made to its line of cars; Sports/Grand Touring Model. It came as a complete surprise that Volvo could build a sports car.
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Mercer 35J Raceabout
Do you know what the idea of a fast car was in the early 1900’s? It had to be a combination of powerful engine, great ergonomics and fine handling. The usual ‘fast’ cars were just a big engine within a steel body and were literally deadly machines, somewhat like a tradition. In 1910, newborn Mercer brought in the 35J Raceabout, a proper combination of all three requirements.
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Ferrari 250GT SWB Spyder California
Starting off in 1958, Ferrari was convinced by two U.S. distributors, Jon von Neumann and Luigi Chinetti, to create a convertible to be named after their best market, California. So by 1959, emerged the California Spyder, the rare super-performance car which had very limited availability in the market and each car had its specialty, from competing-spec engines to rare factory hard tops. First introduced in 1960 at the Geneva Auto Show, the interior of the car was no-frills and fabric top behind the seats. A heater being the only luxury in the car, it soon became the successor of the legendary 250 GT who won Tour de France. It was the most coveted car in the U.S. and was often referred at the “Cal Spyder” by Hollywood movie stars like James Coburn.
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1968-69 Dodge Hemi Charger
In 1967, Dodge had a drop in sales and started thinking of new designs for their cars. It was decided that in 1968 they will separate and diversify their Coronet and Charger models and create a new style in B-head designs. Design was not the only concern as they kept losing races against the Ford cars, so the revamped their mechanism too. Designer Richard Sias introduced the coke bottle styling where the front fenders and rear panel quarters were shaped like coke bottles.
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Fiat 500 was produced in Italy from 1936 to 1955. It is also kindly known ‘Topolino’ which means little mouse in Italy. Topolino was made with 3 different models with slight changes during this period. The car was one of the smallest of that time and was also loved by the people.
