There were fewer regulations in the very late '30’s when my Dad represented Crosley.
Forget the oil jet. Use a linked smoke screen/spike dropper combo.
If you’re going to include that, you might as well include the Sinclair C5 electric car. But I don’t think either would make it to 55mph.
I’ve visited that website before b/c there’s one of those in my neighborhood. However, the “Values” link on that site left me a little…oogy.
:eek:
I’m pretty sure a gallon of battery acid would get a C5 a fair way 
dammit…mpg =! mph …
Shocked in agreement or disagreement?
I agree with you. Even if I were interested in this “car”, I wouldn’t buy it from that company.
I thought Corbin Motors (maker of the Sparrow) went out of business. What’s the link between the original company and the above Sparrow link?
I thought so, but I wanted to make sure I wasn’t going to have to defend my belief system. Phew! 
I get the same feeling when I see a commercial vehicle with a Jesus fish on the back.
Apparently, the assets of Corbin Motors were awarded to an outfit called Phoenix Environmental Motors, run by (and perhaps consisting solely of?) a guy named Ron Huch:
http://www.motobykz.co.uk/Corbin/Sparrow.htm
The http://www.phoenixenvironmentalmotors.com/ link given in that article redirects to the “myersmotors” link given above.
And here’s an article on Myers. Huch got financial backing from him:
Is it just me, or does it look like the car was designed Dr. Seuss?
I’ve seen a couple of them around here (Silicon Valley) - somebody used to commute on 85 with one. I’s say it looks more like you’re driving a giant dayglo colored tennis shoe. That said, it’s not a bad stab at doing a personal commuter vehicle.
And before Corbin folded, it was planning another single person three wheeler called the “Merlin” - a “roadster” powered by a V twin motorcycle engine:
Thanks!
I wonder if they have any plans on finishing any of Corbin’s prototypes? They had some cool two-seater gasoline engine roadsters in the work, as well as a new version of the Sparrow.
p.s. I loved the Sparrow chase scene in one of the Austin Powers movies…
The MG midget was way small. Like driving a go cart at highway speeds.
I don’t know if they’d fit the OP’s description of a production car. The Nash Metropolitan, mentioned by brianjedi, was a production car by anyone’s standard. There were nearly 80,000 of them in the US by 1959.
Nash Metropolitans had a top speed of roughly 80MPH, definately highway material there.
Weren’t the original Minis available in the US at one time?