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1965 Airborne Omicron
Well, despite the sporty aspirations and not-less sporty name, Airborne cars weren’t always that sporty. For example, the Omicron.
In 1965 actual CEO (and founder, died in 1976) was surprised with success of Volkswagen Transporter T2 and released the Omicron in 1965. However, this small bus wasn’t planned to be a response to T2, but came to fact that the factory needed small reliable bus-thingy to deliver workers to it. When the first bus was taking people at 30th December of 1964, some people at the factory even asked how much CEO wants for this bus. He said that this one (we’re presenting it also, it’s just production Omicron with number 00001 taped on it’s chassis) is not for sale. But according to people’s applause, he presented the car at 1965 New York Show and told interested people that it will cost only 1970 $. This car became one of most successful Airborne cars and even survived huge crisis in 1973 and was produced in total from 1965 to 1983! There are 102,336 units sold across the world, but the most of them stayed in the US or got to Poland.
The engine is two-carburetor Inline 4 producing 82 PS, this power let this car reach 138 km/h, which is quite good score. The bus isn’t also very luxury; it was just created to transport people. It features standard “fun equipment” (not an innuendo ) and 6 seats that could be covered with everything, even fur. The seats in this model were covered with alcantara, just for comfort. The bus is also FWD and weighs only 1108 kilos! The bad side of this car were poor color options, there were only colors that were just… making puke these days (except this blue ^^) and the thirsty car overall due to sh**ty aerodynamics, it consumed 14 litres of fuel per 100 km.
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By the way, something funny: exemplar with serial number 00069 was ordered in custom sparkling pink color and the first owner was a guy that was gay-oriented and he even proposed a date to CEO, for what he got kicked out of the factory.