Alden StaRRcar
William L. Alden founded Self-Transit Systems Corp. around 1955. It originally envisioned...
Small Cars of the 1960s: A–Z List
In the 1960s conventional small cars such as the Mini and the Fiat 500 began to push many microcars out of the market, while designers kept experimenting with prototypes and special bodies. This page lists models from the 1960s.
Models appear here when the catalog gives a production or presentation year (or a decade tag). Models without a known year are not listed, so use the catalog A–Z for the full list.
Other decades: Before 1950, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s.
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Allelectric
The West Penn Power Company, a subsidiary of the Allegheny Power System, Inc., was an electric utility with...
Alta A200
Alta was a Greek manufacturer of 3-wheel microcars and trucks, as well as motorcycles. Production started...
Alta A700
In 1967 the Alta A700 3-wheel truck was designed and developed. It was equipped with a two-cylinder BMW 700...
AMC Amitron
The AMC Amitron is an electrically powered concept vehicle that was built in 1967 along with Gulton...
Arkla Handywagon
The Arkla Handywagon was a compact American utility truck developed by the Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company in...
Attica 200
A company called Bioplastic SA. in Piraeus, run by Georgios Dimitriadis, obtained a license to build the...
Autocars Marcos ‘W90’ / ‘W95’
In 1965, Autocars, an assembly plant in Haifa, Israel, secured a contract with Standard-Triumph. However,...
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B&Z Electra King
One of the most successful and long-lived electric cars ever made was the Electra King made by B&Z...
Barcino
The Barcino Workshops in Barcelona were responsible for the production of hand-built trucks that facilitated...
Barrett Model 60 Midget
Years before MG grabbed the name, Barrett produced its own Midget. A politically incorrect name by modern...
Barrio Coche Ciudad (City Car)
At the Zaragoza Trade Fair in 1969, the Zaragoza-based company Manuel Barrio, SA presented this tiny...
Bedford SXV88 & SYP88
The earliest known example to surface so far is revealed in the exclusive & sensational images below...
Berkeley B65
Berkeley B65 was presented in September 1960 as an addittion to T60, B95 and B105 models. Its body was the...
Berkeley Bandit
There was increasing competition in the small sports car market especially from cars such as the Austin...
Berkeley T60/4
Berkeley T60/4 came in October 1960 to expand T60 range. Both versions (T60 and T60/4) are mechanically and...
BET 125
BET was a mercifully pithy acronym of Biothechnia Ellinikon Trikyklon (literally Greek Three-Wheeler...
Biota Mk1
John Houghton came up with the concept of the Biota when he owned a Mini-powered midget racer that he...
Bond 875 Mark I
Bond 875 was a successor of Bond Minicars and produced since 1966 to 1970. It was partly developed by...
Bond 875 Mark II
In March 1968, the Bond 875 was given a facelift with a new front and other minor improvements. The Mk II...
Bouffort Enville
Victor Bouffort’s second three-wheeled vehicle was built in 1961. It was the Enville single-seater...
Broadspeed GT
Brian Foley was not only a racer but also a garage owner in New South Wales, primarily dealing in used Minis....
Broadspeed GT 2+2
In the early 1960s, Birmingham-based Broadspeed gained fame for its Mini racing team and established a strong...
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CAP Scoiattolo
Between 1967 and 1973, Carrozzeria Arrigo Perini, or CAP, produced the Fiat 500-based Scoiattolo in Riva del...
Caprera Algol
Caprera was the Italian bodybuilding company. In 1969, they made the only prototype of a microcar called...
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Daihatsu Fellow Buggy
Daihatsu made only 100 units of the “Fellow Buggy”, which was a recreational vehicle that...
DART
The DART is regarded as one of the most influential Mini derivatives ever created. Although only a single...
Datsun Baby
Most of us got our first taste of driving in a theme park — behind the wheel of a go-kart, a pedal car,...
De Carlo 700
The De Carlo 700 was manufactured by Metalmecánica SACI under license from BMW. The car was named after the...
De Carlo SL
De Carlo SL is a little known microcar even for car enthusiast from Argentina. The body design was a local...
Deep Sanderson DS 105 “Twinny”
The Deep Sanderson DS 105 “Twinny” was a one-off British single-seater built by Chris Lawrence with two...
Delta Dimitriadi
The firm “Bioplastic S.A.”, founded by Georgios Dimitriadi, based in the Moscháton neighborhood...
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Ed Roth’s “Surfite”
Before the Beatles dominated the charts, the early 1960s revolved around surf culture. Films like Gidget...
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Ferves Ranger
At the 1966 Turin Motor Show, the Ferves Ranger was introduced as a unique and distinctly Italian compact...
Fesztival by Kálmán Szabadi
Kálmán Szabadi, who died at the age of 81 in the winter of 2010, was best known for being a shipbuilder,...
Fiat 500 Savio Albarella
The Fiat 500 Albarella was a very limited-production Italian beach car developed by Carrozzeria Savio in...
Fiat 500 Ziba
Making a pickup based on a car with a rear engine is not so good idea, but if you are not afraid of...
Fiat 600 D Berlinetta Aerodinamica Modello ‘Y’
Pininfarina’s new Project Y follows last year’s experimental Project X, which featured fore and aft...
Fiat 600 Savio Jungla
The Savio Jungla was a lightweight Italian utility vehicle developed by Carrozzeria Savio on Fiat 600D...
Fiat City Taxi Prototype
The City Taxi project began with a close study of urban traffic and the practical needs of a public-service...
Fissore Aruanda
The Fissore Aruanda, introduced in 1964, was a city car concept designed by Brazilian architecture student...
Ford Berliner
The concept of the city electric car Ford Berliner was created in the second half of the 60s by designers of...
Franbretta
The Argentine company Franco Hermanos S.A.C.I.F. (Sociedad Anónima Comercial Industrial y Financiera)...
France-Jet 1100 cc Prototype
In 1960, France-Jet built a last special version for the American market. It got long front end, bigger...
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General Motors XP-512E
One of GM’s strangest cars was introduced in 1969 at the GM’s Progress of Power event in Warren,...
Győr Mezőgép Puli
During the period 1949-1950, the mechanization of agriculture, agricultural machinery repair and component...
Gyro Stabilized Cargo Carrier
The Gyro Stabilized Cargo Carrier was a small, experimental vehicle developed in the 1960s for the United...
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Haiyan SW710
In 1966, Shanghai Mini-Auto Works introduced its second mini-car, the four-seater Haiyan SW710. The engine...
Home built microcar by Gerber László
In 1961, Gerber László of Kispest, head of the Red Star Tractor Factory, designed and built a dwarf car...
Hospedit
As part of the 1968 transformation experiment known as the new economic mechanism in Hungary, the Electricity...
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Jeep by V.L. Taranukha
October 23, 1966, a parade-competition of home-built cars and motorcycles was held in Moscow. The parade took...
Jurka prototype with Fermín Antonio Capella Hernán body
Spain-based AISA company met some problems: the name was already registered by by a water company from the...
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Krausemobil
It was built by the private company “Louis Krause Krankenfahrzeugfabrik” from Leipzig in 1961....
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l’Automodule
l’Automodule, this is how this ball on wheels called, was designed back in 1969 by the French engineer...
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Mazda 360 Carol
The Carol is the second mini car that Mazda introduced during the Toyo Kogyo era. It was based on a 700 cc...
Morrison Midge Runabout
Morrison Midge Runabout was a rare three-wheeled electric car from the 1960s. The Midge Runabout was built by...
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NAMI 0107
The idea of creating a compact front-wheel drive car was born in the USSR in the early 1960s. In 1964,...
NAMI-049A ‘CELINA’
Did you know that in the 60’s in the USSR there was an attempt to create a truck, based on the ZAZ-965...
Neckar Weinsberg 500
Neckar’s Weinsberg 500 factory history is a bit tangled. The plant had belonged to NSU before being...
NSU P6 / P10 “Uruguay”
When considering the global automotive market, Uruguay is not usually at the forefront of our minds. However,...
NSU Wankel Spider
A rotary engine is any power unit that dispenses with a crankshaft to eliminate reciprocal motion, giving...
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OSI City-Daf
The DAF City, also known as the OSI City-Daf, was one of the most unusual small-car concepts of the...
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Peel P50 E.50 / G.50
The best Top Gear episode of all time is the one with the Peel P50. That the little car could get rid of...
Pioneer-63 / Pioneer (Пионер-63 / Пионер)
As early as the beginning of the 1950s, the Union of the Electrical Engineering Industry (OEP)...
Polaris Star Car
The Polaris Star Car was a 1960s production open-wheel racer designed to look like a miniature Formula 1 or...
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Quasar City Car / Unipower
The Quasar City Car—also known as the Quasar Unipower—was a striking prototype urban vehicle created by...
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Samy
In the mid-60s, the problem of a city car was extremely important. Practical proposals were seen so far,...
Simon Ernő home-built microcar
Ernő Simon was born in St. Petersburg in 1924. As a young assistant he worked at the Danube Aircraft Factory...
SMZ-NAMI-086 ‘Sputnik’
In the early 1960s, the Soviet leadership seriously considered the issue of creating a compact, cheap and...
Suminoe Flying Feather II-I
In 1960, one Flying Feather was rebuilt for competition. Entirely made of aluminum, its body was very...
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Tallinn
Designer Magofirov’s homemade Tallinn car, built in 1961. The small two-door sedan visually copied the...
Toyota EX-II
The EX-II was a fully enclosed, two-seat electric runabout unveiled at the 1969 Tokyo Motor Show. Interaction...
Trabant P602 V
The Trabant P602 V was a functional prototype developed by VEB Sachsenring in Zwickau during the mid-1960s....
Trabant P603
The designers in Zwickau and the GDR government initially agreed that the Trabant 601 would be on the market...
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Urbanina
In an 18th-century villa in the Tuscan countryside, in the early 1960s, Marquis Pier Girolamo Bargagli Bardi...
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Vicente Badia Tricycle
Vicente Badia, a Barcelona motorcycle racer who among other things, at the end of the 40s and in the early...
Vignale Record Sperimentale 1000
The November 1962 Turin Motor Show marked a pivotal moment for Alfredo Vignale. It was his company’s first...
Volkswagen EA266
In the 1960s, Volkswagen began creating a replacement for its popular Volkswagen Käfer model, which has...
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WSK Gacek
In the mid-1960s, the authorities in the Polish People’s Republic recognize the need to launch the...
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Yalta 1000
In the early 70’s, Soviet built Zaporozhets microcars were exported to more than 20 countries,...
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‘Veterok’
“Vetorok” homemade car was built in Novotroitsk, USSR, in 1965-1966. It had a simple tubular...