Vespa 400- 1958
Vespa is known around the world for its scooters, but few people may know it produced one economy car. The company’s president felt that FIAT’s prominence in Italy should...
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Collection
Please note that the cars or exhibit items shown in this database are part of our collection but may not be on display when you visit.
Vespa P200E- 1979
There are certain scenes that spring to mind when thinking of Italy. The Colosseum in Rome, the gondolas on the canals of Venice, and narrow roads filled with Vespa...
Vespa PX150 Scooter- 2005
Piaggio was founded in Italy in 1884 as a business that made luxury ship fittings. By the end of the century, they were also producing rail carriages, luxury coaches,...
Vitrex ADDAX-1978
French industrial planner Jacques Riboud, of Vitrex Industrie, promoted and designed microcars as a solution to increased urbanization in 1970’s Paris. He believed full-size cars to be too big...
Voisin C28- 1936
Gabriel Voisin was a major manufacturer of airplanes during World War I. The end of the war saw him with a large fortune and an equally large factory, but...
Volkswagen Beetle- 1956
The Volkswagen Beetle is a car we are all familiar with. More than 20 million were sold. While the name “Porsche” is associated with expensive cars, Ferdinand Porsche had...
Volkswagen Beetle- 2003
The Volkswagen Beetle is a car we are all familiar with. More than 20 million were sold. While the name “Porsche” is associated with expensive cars, Ferdinand Porsche...
Volkswagen New Beetle- 2003
By 1993, Volkswagen’s North American sales had dropped to a mere 50,000 total units. Two VW designers, J Mays and Freeman Thomas, believed the key to future success was...
Volkswagen XL1- 2014
The Volkswagen XL1 is a two-seat, limited production, diesel-powered plug-in hybrid that VW introduced in 2014. Volkswagen was developing PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) technologies, and wanted to test...
Volvo 142 “Big Orange”-1974
“Of all of the cars display, Big Orange would be my favorite. I drove it more than all the other cars except the 911, and had a tremendous amount of...
Volvo 142 Race Car- 1972
Here is an unassuming-looking Volvo 142 that has been modified for racing, and is raced by Jeff Lane. SCCA created the “Improved Touring (IT) class” race cars in the...
Volvo 142 S- 1971
The first production model Volvo was completed in 1927. Volvo car and truck production continued throughout WWII on a limited basis due to material shortages and isolation from foreign...
Volvo 1800S- 1966
The idea of Volvo building a sports car in the 1950’s seemed unlikely to most. Volvos have been safe family cars since the beginning. But after Volvo vice-president Assar...
Volvo 444- 1947
Former SKF Bearing executives Gustav Larson and Assar Gabrielsson saw an opportunity to build cars in Sweden after WWI, and approached their former employer about using an underutilized factory....
Von Dutch ‘Rocket Car’ -1961
Kenny Howard, aka Von Dutch, was a motorcycle mechanic, metal fabricator, artist, and, most notably, a ground-breaking pinstriper of hot rods and motorcycles from the 1950s until his passing...