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| | VERY HOT RODS - January 11, 2006 |
 | | The vehicle, selling for $35,000 to $70,000 depending on horsepower and extras, is a decided guy car, sporting the "race-bred design" of the Ferraris and Lamborghinis of the 1960s, said Bramscher, who made a fortune in the dot-com boom and, although shopping for investors, is funding most of the privately held company himself. |
 | | The first half-dozen vehicles are built, 50 are ordered Brammo has a point-and-click ordering site online and inquiries are pushing 10,000, he noted, with about 10 potential customers flying in for test drives each month. |
 | | The Ariel Atoms design is licensed from the British Ariel Motor Car Co. but future models are designed in-house by Brian Wismann, a 25-year-old veteran of Daytona race car body designing, hired from North Carolina, and engineer Michael Sorensen, a local resident who fashions the mechanics of the vehicles. |
| www.mailtribune.com /archive/2006/0111/local/stories/01local.htm (1036 words) |
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