All posts tagged "roadster"
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Joagar
Joaquim Garcia’s first car
15.12.2025In the 1950s the pioneer Joaquim Garcia, a musician, carpenter, and mechanic from Jaboticabal, São Paulo,...
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Fiat
Fiat 500 Zanzara by Zagato
19.11.2025The Fiat 500 Zanzara was a 1969 concept car created by Zagato. Taking its name from...
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Subaru
Subaru 450 Sports
15.11.2025The Subaru 450 Sports was a compact, rear-engined sports car prototype unveiled at the 8th Tokyo...
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Fiat
Fiat 500 Sport Viotti
13.11.2025The 1937 Fiat 500 Spider was a bespoke creation by the renowned Italian coachbuilder Viotti. Developed...
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Cambro
Cambro Cyclecar
09.10.2025This single-seat runabout was built by the Central Aircraft Co. of Kilburn, North London, shortly after...
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Dogon Design
TYRA
03.08.2025To honor the unknown individuals who contributed to the establishment of the Republic and to share...
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Ad Art
Ad Art AD-S50
03.07.2025Originally popularized in the mid-1980s for being a “simple car that didn’t require a regular driver’s...
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Colt Motors
Colt Economy
01.05.2024This is the story of one of the many failed attempts to produce an affordable vehicle...
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Home built
EV roadster from the USSR
11.03.2024This compact electric roadster was created by schoolchildren at the turn of the 60s and 70s...
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Daihatsu
Daihatsu Osanpo Concept
07.10.2023The Daihatsu Osanpo is an electric crossover convertible concept that combines an appealing design with increased...
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Articles
Smartborghini is an Impressive Lamborghini Gallardo Caricature
18.05.2023This Lamborghini Gallardo replica is based on a 2014 SMART Fortwo. An unusual homemade car received...
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Biota
Biota Mk2
14.04.2023John Houghton redesigned the Biota Mk1 after 25 units had been produced and introduced the Mk2...
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Biscuter
Biscuter 200-F (Pegasin)
12.04.2023Introduced in 1957, the Biscuter 200-F (or Pegasin) was the last of the saga. The new...
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Biota
Biota Mk1
09.04.2023John Houghton came up with the concept of the Biota when he owned a Mini-powered midget...
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B&B
B&B Broganette
24.03.2023“The answer to the demand for a tiny, inexpensive car” was how Frank Brogan described the...
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Bambino
Bambino Sport
20.03.2023Bambino Sport was a concept car based on the Bambino 200 microcar. The small roadster was...
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BAG
Spatz / BAG-Spatz
31.01.2023The history of Spatz is so ephemeral that to get to it you have to do...
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Home built
Badia-Ballarin
31.01.2023Despite the little information that exists about this curious microcar, and the fact that in the...
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France-Jet
France-Jet 1100 cc Prototype
19.01.2023In 1960, France-Jet built a last special version for the American market. It got long front...
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France-Jet
France-Jet V2N
19.01.2023With the aim of entering the American market, the subsidiary France-Jet Motor Ltd. created for this...
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France-Jet
Jet V2N
19.01.2023In 1959, Union Industrielle (formerly named Air Tourist) made a turn and announced the new Brutsch...
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France-Jet
Jet 175 Prototype
18.01.2023Air Tourist and the Avolette brand give way to Union Industrielle and the Jet and France-Jet...
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Avolette
Avolette 125 / 150 Lambretta engine
18.01.2023At the end of 1957, a redesign of the “Avolette” with new shapes and better mechanics,...
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Auto Sandal
Auto Sandal FN-L
17.01.2023In 1954, a full model change was planned, and a model with a front engine and...
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Auto Sandal
Auto Sandal FN
17.01.2023During 1953, an FN model was launched. The second model of Auto Sandal brand (オートサンダル) was...
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Auto Sandal
Auto Sandal FS
17.01.2023After World War II, and in the midst of the postwar period, the Japanese government had...
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Auto Sandal
Nakano Yoshimishiro prototype
17.01.2023In 1947, Nakano Yoshimishiro founded the “Nakano Automobile Kogyo Company Limited” in the Japanese city of...
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Atlas
Atlas Babycar
16.01.2023The Atlas was a 4-wheeled microcar produced by the Societe Industrielle de Livry (SIL). The prototype,...
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Jurka
Jurka prototype with Fermín Antonio Capella Hernán body
06.01.2023Spain-based AISA company met some problems: the name was already registered by by a water company...
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Evetta
Evetta Openair
04.09.2022In addition to the base version Evetta Prima, the open-top version Evetta Openair was presented. Although...
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Freze
Freze Froggy EV Beachstar
14.07.2022Dartz has shown a new version of their last year’s Nikrob project. The Freze Froggy EV...
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AFA
AFA Prototype
05.11.2021AFA (some sources affirm that it is the acronym for “Automobiles Fernández y Aymerich”, and other...
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Motores Abril
Motores Abril Diesel Minicar
02.11.2021The Abril is one of many microcars manufactured in Spain. This was a unique vehicle, which...
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Rovin
Rovin Type D2
10.10.2021Rovin was a French auto-maker established in the Paris region, and most active from 1946 until...
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Home built
Yudin’s Roadster From Tashkent
31.08.2021The tiny home built car was made by the father and son Yudins from Tashkent. They...
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Brütsch
Brütsch V2
03.11.2020The Brütsch V2 roadster was created in the mid 50s by the German company Egon Brütsch...
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Home built
Vellák
04.03.2020József Vellák from Nagykanizsa learned the locksmith’s profession in 1919 in the locksmith shop of György...
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Home built
Home built roadster from Siberia
22.12.2019This tiny home-made car was made in Siberia. It was created in 1971. According to the...
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Berkeley
Berkeley Bandini
05.12.2019A Berkeley enthusiast called Andy Argyle started offering replacement chassis, panels and bodyshells for Berkeley cars...
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Belcar
Belcar
03.12.2019This was a licence-built version of the Brutsch 200 Spatz. It swapped the original 191cc Sachs...
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Avolette
Avolette
21.11.2019The Avolette was one of many cars whose origins lay with Brutsch, in this case the...
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ATR
Aero Trike Roadster
17.10.2019The Aero Trike Roadster (or ATR) was a kit designed by Maurice Bourne of Marquez, Texas,...
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Antem
Antem
28.09.2018The Antem microcar with open body was built by the Frenchman Jacques Antem, son of Jean...
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American Bantam
American Bantam Model 60 / 62 / 65
14.01.2018American Bantam company was a successor of the American Austin Car Company, which was connected to...
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AM
AM
04.01.2018AM is a self-made single-place microcar from the Czech Republic. It had a streamlined body (like racing...
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Altona
Altona Condor
03.01.2018The Altona was a Belgian car brand located in Borgerhout near Antwerp. Altona Motors Antwerp was founded at the end of the 1930s by Mr. De Belder,...
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Allander
Allander Roadster 7hp
21.12.2017The Allander Roadster is a one-off car that was built by Claes Allander of Alingsås, Sweden in...
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Aleu
Aleu Bambi
08.12.2017In 1954, the motorcycle brand “Manufacturas Aleu, s.l.” presented a 3-wheel microcar called ‘Micro-Auto Bambi’, ‘Bambi’ or ‘Autobambi’....
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Alco
Alco
07.12.2017The German company Kleinschnittger made the F250 microcar with an open body between 1950 and 1957. A licensed...
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Skoda
Skoda Element Concept
03.07.2017Skoda has unveiled a new concept named the Element. Based on the Citigo, the Element is...
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Crosley
Crosley HotShot / Super Sports
07.06.2017Cincinnati radio-and-refrigerator magnate Powel Crosley, Jr., entered the car business in 1939 with dreams of an...
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Powerdrive
Powerdrive
17.05.2017In the arcane world of British microcars, David Gottlieb is a near-mythical figure. The designer of...
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Acrea
Acrea Zest
06.01.2017French company Acrea was created in 2005. The first and the only model Zest debuted in Paris...
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ABC
ABC Tricar
19.12.2016ABC Tricar 3-wheelers were made by a small company Auto Bodycraft of Brierley Hills, Staffordshire, England. The...
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Alca
Alca Volpe
06.12.2016The design of this rare Volpe roadster made by Alca (Anonima Lombarda Cabotaggio Aereo) is very...