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A child riding a Big Wheel tricycle. Big Wheel is a brand of low-riding tricycle, made mostly of plastic, with a large front wheel and shallow seat.Introduced by Louis Marx and Company in 1969 and manufactured in Girard, Pennsylvania, the Big Wheel was a popular toy in the 1970s in the United States, partly because of its low cost and partly because consumer groups said it was a safer ...
Chevrolet's long run of full-sized pickup trucks offered in light-duty or heavy-duty configurations with rear-wheel or four-wheel-drive application Corvair: 1960 1969 GM Z: 2 Chevrolet's compact car Greenbrier: 1961 1972 GM Z 2 Chevrolet's van based on Corvair and station wagon based on Chevelle Chevy II / Nova: 1962 1988 X-body: 5
Into the 1960s and 1970s, Marx still made some cars, though increasingly these were made in Japan and Hong Kong. Especially impressive were two-foot long "Big Bruiser" tow trucks with Ford C-Series cabs and "Big Job" dump trucks, a T-bucket hot rod of the same large size and some foreign cars like a Jaguar SS100, which was later reissued.
Within 18 months they had designed and shipped their first three-wheeled vehicle, designated US90, as a 1970 model. Honda's dominance of the ATC market peaked in 1984, with 370,000 units shipped and a 69% market share. [2] In 1985, Honda offered their most diverse line-up, with ten models available.
The Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) divides the "muscle" AMC Javelins into two categories: Class 36-e for 1968 and 1969 Javelin base and SST models equipped from the factory with 343 cu in (5.6 L) 4-barrel or larger V8 engines; and Class 36-j for the 1970 through 1974 Javelin, SST, and AMX models equipped from the factory with 360 cu ...
The other nice thing about this virtual version of the Big Wheel is that it doesn't require any arm strength to spin. "It's heavy, and I don't mean like in that late '60s 'heavy, brother' way ...
The AMC AMX is a two-seat GT-style muscle car produced by American Motors Corporation from 1968 through 1970. [2] [6] As one of just two American-built two-seaters, the AMX was in direct competition with the one-inch (2.5 cm) longer wheelbase Chevrolet Corvette, [7] for substantially less money.
The GM B platform was introduced in 1926 with the Buick Master Six, and the Oldsmobile Model 30, and had at least 12 major re-engineering and restyling efforts, for the 1937, 1939, 1941, 1949, 1954, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1965, 1971, 1977, and 1991 model years; along with interim styling changes for 1942, 1969, and 1980 that included new sheetmetal and revised rooflines.