cazalea
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Is Zytek the name you are looking for?
At the time the first Smart (Swatch) car came out, I was working for a company which developed the Parts Catalog and Service Information systems for a Smart and their dealers. It was extremely fun to play with them.
Looking in my Literature file cabinet, apparently I have a "thing" for odd and hopeless cars! The Smart, The Think!, The EV1, and The Maybach.
I'll dig up some old pics from 1997-98 (I thought) but I can only come up with these Smart cars driven by me in 1999 or owned by a friend in 2001:
This message has been edited by cazalea on 2014-11-27 19:30:00
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