The Bricklin SV-1 was brainchild of billionaire Malcolm Bricklin, noted Philadelphia-born entrepreneur, businessman, con artist, and original importer of the Subaru 360 & Yugo. Bricklin decided that importing cheap and terrible cars wasn’t good enough, so he created his own version with the help of legendary Batmobile designer and beard enthusiast Herb Grasse. Find this […]
The Bricklin SV-1 was brainchild of billionaire Malcolm Bricklin and is no stranger to the pages of the DailyTurismo as these gull-winged equipped nightmares are often mistaken for kit cars and sell for pocket change. The SV-1 name means Safety Vehicle 1 (did they honestly expect they would build another model?) and it was designed […]
A DT reader recently sent us the following note: Dear DT: You guys need to post more orange cars. Seriously, what if one of your readers is the grand marshal of a Halloween parade or wanted to build a Dukes of Hazzard tribute car, but hates Chargers. What if, like me, he lives in Orange County […]
The Bricklin SV-1 was a short lived Canadian built ‘sports-car,’ the creation of a millionaire dreamer Malcolm Bricklin and designed by noted 60’s Batmobile designer Herb Grasse. The story of the SV-1 sounds a lot like the DeLorean – motivated rich/famous dude thinks he can build a car better than 1000s of engineers at major […]