I'm Like A Bird... I'll Only Fly Away
Whatever happened to the Sparrow?
Whatever happened to the Merlin?
Whatever happened to Tom Corbin, his Hollister plant and his great dream to build affordable environmentally friendly cars?
I MISS Corbin Motors! I WANT a merlin! I want one SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad! I have wanted a Sparrow since I saw it at the 1999 San Francisco car show. I finally commute less than 20 miles to work, I finally have a garage to park the thing in. I don't have 16 grand, but heck I might be able to swing it.
Still, ever since they came out with the production sketches of the gas powered Merlin, that was what I wanted. It was the car of my dreams. At first they said it would be 16 grand. Then they upped it. Eventually I think that they had settled on 24 grand and production was scheduled to begin in 2004. I thought, well out of my price range but in a couple of years! Watch out cuz your mine. But it was never to be. Stupid Corbin Motors went BANKRUPT! Back in 2003 I logged on to their website for a little car fantasizing, and POOF, Tom had an announcement on their site that they were closing and the creditors were literally banging on thier doors. CRAP! Today I find a mention of this car on the web and boom, all my old longing is back.
I want a sparrow.
I want a merlin.
I want to find out where Tom lives and steal his production models.
Ramblings of TerraT @ 1:17 PM
3 Judgements:
so beautiful and... yellow...
now you made me want one! damn.
You can have them. All. *barf*
Hey! I loved those cars. They were unique, they were affordable, which especially back then was a humongous breakthrough when it came to electrical cars, and there was, and is, as far as I know, nothing else out there like them.
Plus, tee hee, I test drove a sparrow in the city and within ONE block five guys used it as an ice breaker to start convos with me and ask for my number. Score!
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