Hearings before the Committee on Government Operations
United States Senate
Ninety-Fourth Congress
First Session
April 16, 17, and 18, 1975

Clippings regarding Sebring-Vanguard and Citicar, starting at page 884.

• Letter to Senator Nunn, by Robert L. Balfour, April 28, 1975, Page 884
• Letter to Congressman Claude Pepper, Robert L. Balfour, April 28, 1975, pages 885, 886
• Dealership Introduction Letter by Robert L. Balfour, Page 887
• SV-48 Sales Bulletin, Robert L. Balfour, Page 888
• Sales Bulletin #2-75, by Sebring-Vanguard, Page 895
• Sales Bulletin #3-75, by Sebring-Vanguard, Page 889-894

The formation of Sebring-Vanguard

Seventy years later the Electric Vehicle Council held its international convention in Atlantic City and utility company executives from all over the world were applauding the announcement that Club Car Inc., Augusta, Georgia, was in production and had orders for over 1,000 Vanguard electric automobiles that would go 28 miles per hour and up to 53 miles on a single battery charge. In 1973 Club Car Inc. sold the manufacturing rights of Vanguard to Sebring-Vanguard Inc., Sebring, Florida and the fully licenseable CITICAR CV-48 electric automobile now comes off the Sebring assembly line at the rate of up to 20 a day with a speed of 38 miles per hour and a distance of up to 50 miles on a single battery charge. Dealers are being established rapidly.

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Interest and Exempting Safety Standards

Women have been telling Sebring-Vanguard they would sleep much better if they knew their sons or daughters had transportation on the college campus and couldn’t go faster than 38 mph.

On November 15, 1973 Sebring-Vanguard Inc. petitioned the National Traffic Safety Administration under their procedural rules to temporarily exempt the CITICAR SV-48 from sections 103, 108, 206 and 208 of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. The petition was granted as requested.

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