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Established in 1916 by Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen, DKW initially specialized in steam fittings before transitioning to being an early producer of two-stroke motorcycles in the 1920s. By the 1930s, DKW had emerged as a leading global motorcycle manufacturer. Diversifying its portfolio, DKW entered the automobile industry, culminating in its merger with Auto Union in 1932,

The 1886 Benz Patent Motorwagen, created by Karl Benz, is widely regarded as the world’s first true automobile. Powered by a single-cylinder, 2/3 horsepower engine, it was designed to be a self-propelled vehicle, marking a revolutionary departure from horse-drawn carriages. The Motorwagen featured a steel frame, large wire spoked wheels with hard rubber tires, and

The Bamby Car was a modernized fiberglass microcar based off Peel Engineering Company’s P50 microcar. Devised by Alan Evans of Hull, England, the Bamby Car was meant to serve as an inexpensive and safe vehicle for housewives and young drivers. Then named after the iconic Disney cartoon character, Bambi, the company envisioned that the misspelt

The Renault Fuego was introduced in 1980 and is considered a car of firsts – the Fuego introduced the first keyless entry fob in the automobile industry; was the first car to have remote stereo controls on the steering wheel; and was the first mass-produced four-seat sport hatchback fully designed in a wind-tunnel. Today we

The Alpine company was originally founded by Renault dealer and rally driver Jean Rédélé during the 1950s. The first Alpine A110 debuted in 1962 and became a successful race car, winning historic 1-2-3 finishes at the Monte Carlo Rally in 1971 and 1973. Unfortunately, public sales of the cars were slow and by 1973 Renault

Aixam, a French company known for their microcars, debuted the Mega Tjaffer in 1992 as a versatile pleasure vehicle. Based on the Citroën AX, Aixam built the Mega Tjaffer with interchangeable and removable plastic body panels. Because of this, the Mega Tjaffer could be a four seater with a roof, a two seater pickup truck,

During the mid-1950s, Father Alfred Juliano set out to construct the safest car to ever be introduced in the United States. Juliano would call the car Aurora – a fully fiberglass bodied automobile with safety features decades ahead of their time. The car was slated to be launched in 1957, but an overambitious Juliano, a

This 1963 DKW F12 certainly doesn’t look like a production F12 due to its custom fiberglass sports car body. The original owner of this car designed his own sports car body, starting with a clay model, then creating his own body molds to form the fiberglass panels (all of which came into the collection with