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The Helicak, one of many odd micro-vehicles to come out of the 1970s, was borne through an Indonesian tax incentive offer to vehicle manufacturers to produce designs that could be locally fabricated. Lambretta, the quintessentially-Italian scooter manufacturer seized this opportunity, heavily modifying their DL 150 scooter by adding a cab of fibreglass and acrylic to the front to transport people through Jakarta’s bustling streets. Essentially a helicopter body transplanted onto a common scooter, the Helicak was a failure by any definition, with less than 1000 units sold (and most to the local authorities) before being banned, dumped in a nearby sea and forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Helicak, one of many odd micro-vehicles to come out of the 1970s, was borne through an Indonesian tax incentive offer to vehicle manufacturers to produce designs that could be locally fabricated. Lambretta, the quintessentially-Italian scooter manufacturer seized this opportunity, heavily modifying their DL 150 scooter by adding a cab of fibreglass and acrylic to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}