A 1975 Bricklin SV1

A short video of a 1975 Bricklin SV1 sports car I came across during Life Church's "Trunk Or Treat" Cars & Coffee event held on Saturday, October 26th, 2024. This is a pretty rare car, for the Bricklin was only made in 1974 ( 772 cars ), and 1975 ( 2,082 cars ). The car came equipped with gull-wing doors, automatic transmissions, 351 V8 engines, and power doors and locks.

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Life Church "Trunk Or Treat" Cars & Coffee:
https://rumble.com/v5kjx1x-life-church-trunk-or-treat-cars-and-coffee-part-1-or-3-october-26th-2024.html

Wikipedia:

The SV-1 is a two-door, two-seat hatchback with gull-wing doors, hidden headlamps and a front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout. Its bodywork is a composite material made up of acrylic resin bonded to a fibreglass substrate. The acrylic is impregnated with the body's colour, which had the potential to reduce costs, as it eliminated the need for the factory to paint the cars in a separate step. The five "Safety" colours offered were one of the few options buyers had.

The doors, which weigh 90 lb (40.8 kg) each, are raised by hydraulic cylinders controlled by switches in the interior, and take up to 12 seconds to open or close. The system is sensitive to the condition of the car's battery, as well as being prone to breakdown. The system uses a single hydraulic pump and has no hydraulic interlock, so opening one door and closing the other at the same time has the potential to destroy the pump.

The Bricklin's chassis is a steel perimeter frame with an integrated "Steel Roll-Over Module". The front and rear bumpers are designed to absorb the force of a 5 mph (8 km/h) impact.

The front suspension uses A-arms and coil springs and is made up of parts shared with a variety of existing AMC models. At the rear is a Hotchkiss system of leaf springs on a live axle.

Braking is by power-assisted 11 in (279 mm) discs in front and 10 in (254 mm) drums in back. Kelsey-Hayes provided the brake components for Bricklins built from 1974 to early 1975, after which the car used parts from Bendix.

Production Bricklins are powered by one of two OHV V8 engines, depending on the year of manufacture. Cars built in 1974 received a 360 cu in (5.9 L) AMC V8 from American Motors. With a single four-barrel carburetor this engine produces 220 hp (164.1 kW) and 315 ft⋅lb (427.1 N⋅m) of torque. Transmission options for the year are a 3-speed Torque Command automatic (AMC's rebranded TorqueFlite 727) or a BorgWarner T-10 4-speed manual. Of the 772 cars built in 1974, 137 received the manual. Cars built in 1975 mounted a 351 cu in (5.8 L) Windsor V8 from Ford, a change which required an extensive redesign of the car's subframe.[9]: 89  With a single two-barrel carburetor this later engine produces 175 hp (130.5 kW) and 286 ft⋅lb (387.8 N⋅m) of torque. As Ford had no manual transmission EPA certified for the 351W engine, transmission options were limited to the Ford FMX 3-speed automatic.

The cars have no cigarette lighters or ashtrays. There is also no provision for a spare tire.

These video clips and photos were taken on Saturday, October 26th, 2024, and edited using CapCut 4.1.0 ( 55,000 Kbps ).

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