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Bricklin SV-1

The Bricklin SV-1 was a gull-wing aperture sports car accumulated in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. The anatomy panels were bogus in a abstracted bulb in Minto, New Brunswick. Bogus from 1974 until aboriginal 1976 for the U.S. market, the car was the conception of Malcolm Bricklin, an American millionaire who had ahead founded Subaru of America. The car was advised by Herb Grasse. Due to Bricklin's abridgement of acquaintance in the auto industry, accompanying with the allotment problems, the Bricklin branch was not able to aftermath cartage fast abundant to accomplish a profit. As a result, alone 2854 cars were congenital afore the aggregation went into receivership, attributable the New Brunswick government $23 million.
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