Original Blog Entry: World's smallest car enters Ripley's Believe it or Not museum

truesee — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:38:14 GMT

World's smallest car enters Ripley's Believe it or Not museum

Saturday, 04 July 2009

The Peel P50, a single door, three wheel microcar went on display at New York's Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum on Monday. The Peel Engineering Company manufactured 50 to 100 of the one-seater vehicles which weighed 130 lb (59 kg), and are 52.8 in (134 cm) in length, 47 in (120 cm) in height and 39 in (99 cm) in width.

The little car can travel as fast as 38 mph (61 kph), and comes equipped with a handle on the car so the driver can pull the car to back up.

Only twenty of the vehicles have survived since 1963, and the original price of 199 has soared to approximately 40,000 (US$ 65,000) today.

Information from: Wikinews, http://www.wikinews.org

Image: Philip (flip) Kromer.

Link to Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGd8OTxVtt8

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