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1975 Vanguard CitiCar Quick Drive
🕑 Added 2018-07-17 14:01:00 +0000 UTC This is a tiny, plastic, electric car from 1975. This is a car with just 3.5hp from a DC motor and a 48V lead acid battery pack. The top speed is something like 25mph, but it's licensed as a regular car. The accelerator pedal does not control a speed controller. Instead, motor speed is controlled by what is essentially three relays, so it's an on-off switch with three speeds. It's ridiculously awful, but they made over 4,000 of them.A full video will come of this thing when I go back to film this car later this year. The owner of this also has an HMV Freeway I'll be filming, which should also prove entertaining.
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So this is the end result of a drunken fling between a Bond Bug and a milk float...
Madison Kelly
That giggling tho. lol!
Jeff DeWitt
I test drove one of those things back when they were new... and they weren't any better then!
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