When I started Motoring Weekly back in 2008, I made a list of the weird cars that had been produced, mostly as a way of finding new technologies or a competitive advantage. The 6-wheeled car was at the top of my list! Pat Clancy Special One of the first true 6-wheeled car was actually a racing car - and built in the late 1940s! It raced at the Indianapolis 500 in 1948 … [Read more...]
Matra
MATRA – Mecanique Avion Traction was founded in 1945 as a defence company with the intention of creating a twin engined plane that was capable of 500mph (800kph). For the first 20 years they concentrated on defence and aeronautics but in the early 1960s they bought Automobiles Rene Bonnet and created Matra Automobiles. Rene Bonnet made very light sports cars and used Matra … [Read more...]