"...it is not "safe to smoke and drive."
The Bricklin SV-1 is a gull-wing sports car that was assembled in Saint John. Manufactured from 1974 until late 1975 for the American market, the car was the creation of Malcolm Bricklin, an American millionaire who had previously founded Subaru of America. The car was designed by Herb Grasse. The Bricklin factory was not able to produce vehicles fast enough to make a profit. As a result, only 2,854 cars were built before the company went into receivership, owing the New Brunswick government $21 million, and less than 3,000 cars were built. The model name SV-1 was an acronym for "safety vehicle one". The original idea for the Bricklin SV-1 was a safe and economical sports car, but due to the added weight of the safety features, the car was inefficient and simply a safe sports car. The Bricklin was designed for safety with an integrated roll cage, 5 mph (8.0 km/h) bumpers, and side beams.  The body was fiberglass with bonded acrylic in five "safety" colours: white, red, green, orange and suntan. The cars had no cigarette lighter or ashtray "to discourage smoking".  A non-smoker, Malcolm Bricklin believed it was unsafe to smoke and drive. The Bricklin is the only production vehicle in automotive history to have factory powered gull-wing doors that opened and closed at the touch of a button as standard equipment. ^{Click here to continue reading Wikipedia article.}

This is a demonstration on the rare Bricklin Safety Vehicle 1 (SV-1) built in Saint John, Canada in 1974-75. About 1500 cars are still known to exist out of the approximately 2854 to maybe 2916 manufactured. The car was very innovative with the acrylically impregnated fiberglass exterior, (cars came in 5 colors and were NOT painted), full integrated safety roll cage built into the structure of the car, extremely heavy duty bumpers, gullwing doors which allowed the frame of the car to be at door sill height providing added passenger safety. The car lacks a lighter and ash tray because its creator, Malcolm Bricklin, it is not "safe to smoke and drive."

Amphibrick, July 7, 2007