The video version of Iowahawk’s Instant Classic on Congressional Motors’ “Pelosi.”
The complete story of the accidental collaboration is here, at Burge’s groovy pad.
Dave’s original “print magazine ad” for The Pelosi actually featured a pic of the CitiCar, which was designed by Chris Muir’s dad. According to the anti-bloggin’ folk over at Wiki:
The Citicar, a small electric vehicle whose design was later purchased by Commuter Vehicles, Inc., and renamed the Comuta-Car, was first produced in Florida in 1974 by a company called Sebring Vanguard because of the mid-1970s’ fuel crisis. The Citicar was a tiny golf cart sized car that could go at a top speed of about 39MPH, had no extra features such as locking doors or air conditioning. Production continued until 1983, and at 2,500 produced, it still holds the record for most road-legal electric cars made in automobile history.
According to Muir (the younger), one of the ideas behind the CitiCar was that is should be short enough to park perpendicular to a curb that normally only accommodates parallel parking—an advantage I’ve also heard attributed lately to the SmartForTwo, which IIRC will go at freeway speeds. (My ex, The Mathematician, has one, and they appear to be well-engineered, ungodly cute little things. Though I have been told that many municipalities don’t allow that “perpendicular parking” dealio.)
For your pleasure: the Citicar family album, and an article about NEVs that features a pic of my favorite local-only NEV design—of the sort that only goes on streets, rather than freeways. (Hence, “Neighborhood Electric Vehicles.”)
They used these on the high-school campus near our old house, and I liked the curviness of its design, as well as the fact that it comes in varieties that will seat four; there is even a microscopic “pickup truck” version that will carry a bit of cargo. But seeing a light bar on top scares me; I don’t like light bars.
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