query: French car models in 1960's

positive: Alpine A108 The Alpine A108  was a light-weight glass-fibre bodied, rear-engined two-door coupé produced for a young competition-oriented Dieppe based Renault dealer called Jean Rédélé.   The car replaced the Alpine A106 and was based on mechanical components from the Renault Dauphine.

positive: Alpine A110 The Alpine A110, also known as the "Berlinette", was a  sports car produced by the  French manufacturer Alpine from 1961 to 1977. The Alpine A110 was introduced as an evolution of the A108. The A110 was powered by various Renault engines.

positive: Bugatti Automobiles Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. is a French high-performance luxury automobiles manufacturer and a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG, with its head office and assembly plant in Molsheim, Alsace, France. Volkswagen purchased the Bugatti trademark in June 1998 and incorporated Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. in 1999.Bugatti presented several concept cars between 1998 and 2000 before commencing development of its first production model, the Veyron 16.4, delivering the first Veyron to a customer in 2005.

positive: Buick LeSabre The Buick LeSabre, French for "the sabre", is a full-size luxury car made by Buick from 1959-2005. For many years, the LeSabre was considered the entry level full-size Buick, carrying the lowest base price in the Buick lineup. Prior to 1959, this position had been retained by the full-size Buick Special model (1936–58); in 2005 the LeSabre replaced the Special, a nameplate that was reintroduced in 1961 for Buick's line of compact cars.

positive: Citroën 2CV The Citroën 2CV (French: "deux chevaux" i.e. "deux chevaux-vapeur" (lit.

positive: Citroën Ami The Citroën Ami is an automobile in the supermini class, produced by the French automaker Citroën from 1961 to 1978. The Ami was for some years the best-selling car model in France. Production totalled 1,840,396 units.

positive: Citroën DS The Citroën DS (French pronunciation: [sitʁoɛn de ɛs]) is a front-engine, front-wheel-drive executive car manufactured and marketed by the French company Citroën from 1955 to 1975 in sedan, wagon/estate and convertible body configurations. Italian sculptor and industrial designer Flaminio Bertoni and the French aeronautical engineer André Lefèbvre styled and engineered the car.

positive: Citroën Dyane The Citroën Dyane is an economy car/supermini produced by the French automaker Citroën from 1967 to 1983. The design was based on the Citroën 2CV. 1,443,583 were manufactured.A panel van version called the Acadiane derived from the Dyane.

positive: Citroën Méhari The Citroën Méhari is a light utility car and off-roader produced by the French automaker Citroën, a variant of the Citroën 2CV. 144,953 Méharis were built between the car's French launch in May 1968 and 1988 when production ceased. A méhari is a type of fast-running dromedary camel, which can be used for racing or transport.

positive: Facel Vega Facel II The Facel Vega 'Facel II' was a French Grand Touring car produced by Facel between the years 1962 and 1964.By 1962 the Paris-based Facel Vega company was facing bankruptcy.  The Facel II was to be the company's last attempt to create a luxury GT car in the French tradition. Jean Daninos, Facel's founder and president, said of the Facel II, "The HK 500 was the most interesting car we ever made but the Facel II was by far the best.

positive: IKA-Renault Torino The IKA Torino, later Renault Torino, is a mid-sized automobile made by Industrias Kaiser Argentina (IKA) under an agreement with American Motors Corporation (AMC) in 1966. The 1966 Torino was IKA’s first integral national product and IKA was eventually bought out by Renault in 1975 to form Renault Argentina S.A. The Torino was built on the same hybrid AMC platform all the way through 1981 in both two-door hardtop and four-door sedan variants. It has been called Argentina's national car.

positive: Matra Djet The Matra Djet was a French sports car designed by René Bonnet and modified by Matra. The car had various names in its life from 1962 till 1967: René Bonnet Djet, Matra Bonnet Djet, Matra Sports Djet and finally Matra Sports Jet. This car was owned by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

positive: Peugeot 203 The Peugeot 203 is a medium-sized car which was produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot between 1948 and 1960.The car was exhibited at the Paris Motor Show in 1947, but by then had already been under development for more than five years.  Volume manufacturing was initially hampered by strikes and shortages of materials, but production got under way late in 1948, with buyers taking delivery of 203s from early 1949.The 203 was Peugeot's first new model launched after World War II.

positive: Peugeot 204 The Peugeot 204 is a small family car produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot between 1965 and 1976.The 204, known in development as Project D12, was available in many body styles including a sedan/saloon/berline, convertible/cabriolet, hatchback/coupe, estate/wagon, and a van. It was launched in Paris, France on 23 April 1965 and became the best-selling car in France from 1969 to 1971.

positive: Peugeot 403 The Peugeot 403 is a car produced by French automobile manufacturer Peugeot between May 1955 and October 1966. A total of 1,214,121 of all types, including commercial models, were produced, making it the first Peugeot to break through the one million barrier.

positive: Peugeot 404 The Peugeot 404 is a large family car produced by French automobile manufacturer Peugeot from 1960 to 1975.  A  truck body style variant was marketed until 1988. The 404 was manufactured under licence in various African countries until 1991 (in Kenya) and was manufactured in Argentina by Safrar/Sevel in El Palomar, in Québec, Canada at the St-Bruno-de-Montarville SOMA Ltd. plant and in Chile by Automotores Franco Chilena S.A.

positive: Peugeot 504 The Peugeot 504 is an automobile manufactured by French automaker Peugeot between 1968 and 1983, with licensed production continuing until 2006.

positive: Renault 12 For Renault 12 aero engines see: List of aircraft engines#RenaultThe Renault 12 is a family car introduced by French automaker Renault at the Paris Motor Show in October 1969 and produced in France till 1980.

positive: Renault 16 The Renault 16 is a large family hatchback produced by French automaker Renault between 1965 and 1980 in Le Havre, France.

positive: Renault 4 The Renault 4, also known as the 4L (pronounced "Quatrelle"), is a hatchback economy car produced by the French automaker Renault between 1961 and 1992. It was the first front-wheel drive family car produced by Renault.The car was launched at a time when several decades of economic stagnation were giving way to growing prosperity and surging car ownership in France.

positive: Renault 4CV The Renault 4CV (French: "quatre chevaux" [kat ʃə.vo]) is a rear-engined, rear wheel drive, four-door economy subcompact car manufactured and marketed by the French manufacturer Renault from August 1947 through July 1961.

positive: Renault 6 The Renault 6 is a small family car produced by the French automaker Renault between 1968 and 1986.The Renault 6 was launched at the 1968 Paris Motor Show, and was intended to be an upmarket alternative to the Renault 4 that would compete with the Citroën Ami 6 and the recently launched Citroën Dyane. It used a similar dashboard-mounted gear-lever and over-the-engine linkage to that used in the Renault 4 and the small Citroëns with which it competed.

positive: Renault 8 and 10 The Renault 8 (Renault R8 until 1964) and Renault 10 are two rear-engined, rear-wheel drive small family cars produced by the French manufacturer Renault in the 1960s and early 1970s.The 8 was launched in 1962, and the 10, a more upmarket version of the 8, was launched in 1965. The Renault 8 ceased production and sales in France in 1973.

positive: Renault Caravelle The Renault Caravelle is an automobile which was produced by the French manufacturer Renault between 1958 and 1968. Outside of North America and Britain it was, until 1962, marketed under the nameplate Renault Floride.

positive: Renault Colorale The Renault Colorale is a mid-size car (though by the European standards of that time it will have been seen as a large family car) manufactured and marketed by Renault for model years 1950-1957.   Featuring the profile of a small station wagon/estate, the Colorale's styling recalled successful Renault designs of the 1960s.   The Colorale was not a commercial success.

positive: Renault Dauphine Renault Dauphine (pronounced: [dɔfin]) is a rear-engined economy car manufactured by Renault in a single body style – a three-box, four-door sedan – as the successor to the Renault 4CV; more than two million units were sold worldwide during its production run from 1956 until 1967.Along with such cars as the Volkswagen Beetle, Morris Minor, Mini and Fiat 500, the Dauphine pioneered the modern European economy car.Renault marketed variants of the Dauphine, including a sport model, the Gordini, a luxury version, the Ondine, the 1093 factory racing model, and the Caravelle/Floride, a Dauphine-based two-door convertible.

positive: Safir (models) Safir, sometimes called Safir Champion was a French company making diecast metal classic veteran and contemporary plastic race cars and other vehicles in the 1960s through the 1970s. It arose out of the previous French toymaker, Jadali.

positive: Simca 1100 The Simca 1100 is a car built from 1967 to 1982 by Simca. It was replaced by the Simca-Talbot Horizon.

positive: Simca 1300/1500 Simca 1300 and Simca 1500 were large family cars manufactured by the French automaker Simca in its Poissy factory from 1963 to 1966, and between 1966 and 1975 in revamped versions, as Simca 1301 and Simca 1501.They were essentially versions of the same car, fitted with either a 1.3 L or 1.5 L engine, hence the model names. Apart from different engines and differences in standard equipment, the models were for the most part identical, bar some styling details such as grille or bumpers.

positive: Simca Alvorada The Simca Alvorada was a stripped version of the Simca Chambord automobile, the first model to be built by Simca do Brasil.The Chambord, which was a direct copy of the French built Simca Vedette, had first left the production line in March 1959 and featured an 84 hp (63 kW) engine, 3 speed gearbox with the shifter located on the steering column and was assembled with parts imported from France.

positive: Simca Aronde The Simca Aronde is an automobile which was manufactured by the French automaker Simca from 1951 to 1963. It was Simca's first original design (earlier models were all to a greater or lesser extent based on Fiats), as well as the company's first unibody car. "/ Aronde -hirondelle" means "swallow" in Old French and it was chosen as the name for the model because Simca's logo at that time was a stylized swallow.

positive: Simca Vedette The Simca Vedette is a large car, manufactured from 1954 to 1961 by the French automaker Simca, at their factory in Poissy, France. It was marketed with different model names according to trim and equipment levels. The Vedette was Simca's largest model at that time and it spawned a more economical version, the Simca Ariane.Simca acquired the Poissy factory from Ford France (Ford Société Anonyme Française, the French subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company), along with the model line, in 1954.

positive: Talbot Talbot was an automobile marque that existed from 1903 to 1994, with a hiatus from 1960 to 1978, under different owners, latterly Peugeot.  Talbot participated in rallying, winning the 1981 World Rally Championship constructors' title, and in Formula One.

negative: 1:24 scale 1:24 scale is a very popular size for automobile models such as injection-molded plastic model kits or metal die-cast toys, which are built and collected by both children and adults. 1:24 means that a unit of measurement, such as one inch or one centimeter, on the model represents 24 units on the actual object.

negative: AMC AMX For the AMC AMX of 1978, see AMC Concord.For 1979-1980, see AMC Spirit.The AMC AMX is a two-seat GT-style sports car that was produced by American Motors Corporation for the 1968 through 1970 model years. The AMX was also classified as a muscle car, but "unique among other American cars at the time due its short wheelbase". The AMX was also the only American-built steel-bodied two-seater of its time, the first since the 1955-1957 Ford Thunderbird.

negative: AMC Rebel The AMC Rebel (known as the Rambler Rebel in 1967) is a mid-size car produced by American Motors Corporation (AMC) from 1967 to 1970. It replaced the Rambler Classic. The Rebel was replaced by the similar AMC Matador for the 1971 model year.

negative: Academy Plastic Model Academy Plastic Model Co., Ltd. (hangul:아카데미과학주식회사) is a Korean plastic model, chemical, and toy company. It is headquartered in Uijeongbu-Si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea and was established on September 1, 1969. It holds three headquarters in Seoul, Korea; Gelsenkirchen, Germany; and Rosario, Cavite, Philippines. Academy has developed and supplies over 500 products to more than 60 countries worldwide, and, since 1989, Academy has won several Modell des Jahres awards for its high quality products.

negative: Airfix Airfix is a UK manufacturer of injection-moulded plastic scale model kits of aircraft and other objects. In the United Kingdom the name Airfix is synonymous with plastic models of this type, often simply referred to as "an airfix kit" even if made by another manufacturer.Founded in 1939, Airfix was owned by Humbrol from 1986 until Humbrol's financial collapse on 31 August 2006. Since 2007 Airfix has been owned by Hornby.

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Aleko The Moskvitch 2141, commonly referred to as simply Aleko (Russian: "АЛЕКО", derivative from factory name "Автомобильный завод имени Ленинского Комсомола", Avtomobilnyi zavod imeni Leninskogo Komsomola, meaning "Automotive Factory of Lenin's Komsomol"), is a Russian mid-size car that was first announced in 1985 and sold in the Soviet Union and its successor states between 1986 and 2003 (gradually replaced in 2001 by its sedan body version, Moskvitch 2142, which never was produced in large quantities, yet whose worldwide sales have never occurred) by the now bankrupt Moskvitch Stock Company, based in Moscow, Russia.Aleko was a huge improvement over previous Moskvitch models, which were dependable but old-fashioned saloons and station wagons (estates) with rear-wheel drive and a solid rear axle. @en <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleko?oldid=679176199> .
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jean_Brillant> <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#comment> Jean Baptiste Arthur Brillant VC MC (15 March 1890 – 10 August 1918) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

negative: Alfa Romeo Giulia The Alfa Romeo Giulia (Type 105) is a sports saloon which was produced by Italian car manufacturer Alfa Romeo from 1962 to 1978. Alfa Romeo was one of the first manufacturers to put a powerful engine in a light-weight car for mainstream production. The Giulia weighed about 1,000 kilograms (2,205 lb). The car was equipped with a light alloy twin overhead camshaft four-cylinder engine, similar to that of the earlier Giulietta models range.

negative: Aoyagi Metals Company Aoyagi Metals Industry Co. Ltd (青柳金属工業有限会社, Aoyagi Kinzoku Kōgyō Yūgen-gaisha) (commonly known as Ayk in America and Aoyagi in Japan) was a Japanese company that became notable in the 1980s for its radio-controlled cars.The company began in the 1960s manufacturing metal chassis for slotcar racing; 1978 saw the introduction of the RX1200, a 1:12 scale on-road racer, which was the start of the RX series of 1/12-scale on-road chassis.

negative: Audi 80 The Audi 80 is a compact executive car produced by the German manufacturer Audi (initially known as Auto Union and Audi NSU Auto Union) from 1966 to 1996. It shared its platform with the Volkswagen Passat from 1973 to 1986 and was available as a sedan, and an Avant (Audi's name for a station wagon).

negative: Audi S and RS models Audi S and RS models are a range of high performance versions of certain car models of the German automotive company AUDI AG.  These cars primarily focus on enhanced "sport" performance.

negative: Aurora Plastics Corporation The Aurora Plastics Corporation is a U.S. toy and hobby manufacturing and marketing company.  It is known primarily for its production of plastic model kits of airplanes, automobiles, and TV and movie figures in the 1960s.

negative: Austin 3-Litre The Austin 3-Litre is a British saloon car that was introduced by Austin at the London Motor Show in 1967. It became apparent that BMC were not geared up to producing the car: few or none seem to have been sold that year, but by July 1968 it was reported that the cars had begun to leave the factory.

negative: Auto Pilen Auto Pilen was a diecast line of model cars made in Ibi, Alicante, in southeastern Spain by Pilen S.A..  Models were produced from the 1970s through the mid-1990s mostly in 1:43 scale. A majority of the castings were inherited from French Dinky. In the late 1980s, Pilen was apparently bought by AHC of the Netherlands. The company was started in the 1960s, diecasting items like colorful metal sailboats and key chains.

negative: Autocars Co. Autocars Co. Ltd. (Hebrew: אוטוקרס) of Haifa, Israel, was founded in the 1950s as Israel's first car manufacturer (there was an earlier manufacturer who assembled American cars in Haifa bay, Kaiser-Frazer). Among their popular models were the Sussita (סוסיתא), Carmel (כרמל) and  Gilboa (גלבוע) (a number of Carmels were also produced in Greece by Attica). They also assembled Hino Contessas and the superficially similar British Triumph cars from kits in the late 1960s.

negative: Brasinca Uirapuru The Brasinca Uirapuru was a GT-class sports coupe manufactured in Brazil between 1964 and 1966.  Only 77 examples of the model were ever made because of the high production costs.The car had a hand built steel body and a 6-cylinder 4271cc Chevrolet engine which used three SU carburetors.The Brasinca Uirapuru bore a strong resemblance to the Jensen Interceptor which entered production the same year that Uirapuru production ended.

negative: Bugatti Automobiles Ettore Bugatti was a French car manufacturer of high-performance automobiles, founded in 1909 in the then German city of Molsheim, Alsace by Italian-born Ettore Bugatti. Bugatti cars were known for their design beauty (Ettore Bugatti was from a family of artists and considered himself to be both an artist and constructor) and for their many race victories.

negative: Buick Riviera The Buick Riviera is a personal luxury car produced by Buick from 1963 to 1999. GM's first entry into that prestige niche, the Riviera was highly praised by automotive journalists upon its high-profile debut. While early models stayed close to the original form, subsequent generations varied substantially over the Riviera's thirty-year lifespan.

negative: CAR-15 The Colt Automatic Rifle-15 Military Weapons System or CAR-15 was a family of AR-15 and M16 rifle–based firearms marketed by Colt in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Due to their compact size, the short-barreled Colt Commando and XM177 versions of this family continued to be issued to the U.S. military after the Vietnam War.The CAR-15 name was an attempt to re-associate the AR-15 name with Colt, since the AR initially stood for ArmaLite Rifle, the original manufacturer.

negative: CIJ CIJ ( Compagnie industrielle du jouet or "Manufacturing Company  of toys") is a classic French brand for toy vehicles. It was founded by Fernand Migault in Paris  in 1920. The name was changed to Migault S.A. in 1927, after his cousin Marcel Gourdet had joined the firm.  On the grounds of contracts signed by André Citroën himself in 1922, the company produced exclusive model cars made of either metalware or wood in 1:20, la 5 CV Trèfle and la B14 Citroën included.

negative: Car song In the 1960s, the popularity of muscle cars spawned numerous songs about the craze.

negative: Chevrolet Camaro The Chevrolet Camaro is an automobile manufactured by Chevrolet, classified as a pony car and some versions also as a muscle car. It went on sale on September 29, 1966, for the 1967 model year and was designed as a competing model to the Ford Mustang. The car shared its platform and major components with the Pontiac Firebird, also introduced for 1967.Four distinct generations of the Camaro were developed before production ended in 2002.

negative: Chevrolet Chevy II / Nova The Chevrolet Chevy II/Nova is a compact automobile manufactured by Chevrolet, and produced in five generations for the 1962 through 1979, and 1985 through 1988 model years. Nova was the top model in the Chevy II lineup through 1968. The Chevy II nameplate was dropped, Nova becoming the nameplate for the 1969 through 1979 models. Built on the X-body platform, the Nova was replaced by the 1980 Chevrolet Citation introduced in the spring of 1979.

negative: Chevrolet Corvette The Chevrolet Corvette, known colloquially as the Vette, is a sports car manufactured by Chevrolet. The car has been produced through seven generations. The first model, a convertible, was designed by Harley Earl and introduced at the GM Motorama in 1953 as a concept show car. Myron Scott is credited for naming the car after the type of small, maneuverable warship called a corvette. Originally built in Flint, Michigan and St.

negative: Chevrolet Impala The Chevrolet Impala is a full-size automobile built by Chevrolet for model years 1958 to 1985, 1994 to 1996, and 2000 to present. Deriving its name from the African antelope of the same name, Chevrolet's most expensive passenger model through 1965 had become the best-selling automobile in the United States.For its debut in 1958, the Impala was distinguished from lesser models by its symmetrical triple taillights, which returned from 1960 to 1996.

negative: Chevrolet Malibu The Chevrolet Malibu is a mid-size car manufactured and marketed by Chevrolet from 1964 to 1983 and since 1997. The Malibu began as a trim-level of the Chevrolet Chevelle, becoming its own model line in 1978. Originally a rear-wheel-drive intermediate, GM revived the Malibu nameplate as a front-wheel-drive car in 1997.Named after the city of Malibu, California, the Malibu was marketed primarily in North America, with the eighth generation marketed globally.

negative: Chrysler New Yorker The Chrysler New Yorker is an automobile model which was produced by Chrysler from 1940 to 1996, serving for several years as the brand's flagship model. A trim level named the "New York Special" first appeared in 1938 and the "New Yorker" name debuted in 1939.

negative: Citroën GS The Citroën GS (1970–80, sedan and wagon) and Citroën GSA (1979–86, liftback and wagon) are small family cars produced by the French automaker Citroën. The GS was voted European Car of the Year for 1971, ahead of stablemate Citroën SM. It was the most technologically advanced car in its class when launched, with class leading comfort, safety and aerodynamics.

negative: Citroën concept cars There have been a number of concept cars by the French car manufacturer Citroën, produced to show future ideas and forthcoming models at international motor shows.

negative: Corgi Toys Corgi Toys (trademark) is the name of a range of die-cast toy vehicles produced by Mettoy Playcraft Ltd. in the United Kingdom. The Mettoy (Metal Toy) company was founded in 1933 by German émigré Philip Ullmann in Northampton, England, where he was later joined by South African-born German Arthur Katz, who had previously worked for Ulmann at his toy company Tipp and Co of Nuremberg.

negative: Cox Models Cox Models, a former division of Estes Industries of Penrose, Colorado, was a multimillion-dollar hobby company, is one of the hobby industry's oldest companies and is noted for its production of miniature model internal-combustion engines.This company, originally named The L. M. Cox Manufacturing Co, Inc., was founded in 1945 by the machinist Roy Cox in Placentia, California.  Cox grew up in and around his father's bicycle shop, and he developed an interest in mechanical devices.

negative: Dinky Toys Dinky Toys are die-cast zamac miniature vehicles which were produced by Meccano Ltd – makers of Hornby Trains, which were named after founder Frank Hornby. Dinky Toys in England were made from 1935 to 1979.  The factory was at Binns Road, Liverpool, England.

negative: Dominique Darel Dominique Darel (1950–1978) was a French model and actress, mainly active in Italian cinema.Darel was born in Cannes and moved to Rome in the late 1960s.  She made her film debut in Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice, then became a minor starlet in Italian genre cinema. She is probably best known for the role of Maria Romana De Gasperi in Roberto Rossellini's Year One. She died at 28, on June 4, 1978, in a car accident in Cannes.

negative: Economy car An economy car is an automobile that is designed for low cost purchase and operation. Typical economy cars are small, lightweight, and inexpensive to buy. Economy car designers are forced by stringent design constraints to be inventive. Many innovations in automobile design were originally developed for economy cars, such as the Ford Model T and the Austin Mini.

negative: Efsi Toys Efsi was a Dutch company making diecast cars and trucks starting in 1959 under the Bestbox name. The company was based in Heerlen, the Netherlands, which is located in southern Limburg province.

negative: Eligor Models Eligor is a brand of collector's diecast model cars and trucks mostly made in 1:43 scale (though early the 1938 and 1947 Citroen Traction Avant were offered in 1:20 scale).  The brand was eventually acquired by Hobbycar S.A. of Lausanne, Switzerland, with most models continuously made in Izernore, France, about 30 miles west of Geneva. Today Eligor is one of the few diecast modelers to still make its vehicles in Europe.

negative: Far East Model Car Association Far East Model Car Association, otherwise known as FEMCA is the governing body of radio-controlled car racing in Asia and Australasia. It is one of the four member blocs to be entitled full voting right within IFMAR.The organisation was originally founded in 1980, based in Hong Kong; after two false starts, it was re-established in 1985 when it hosted its first IFMAR race in Tokyo.

negative: Fiat 1200 Fiat 1200 was the name of three distinct models produced by Italian car manufacturer Fiat, all based on Fiat 1100 mechanicals.

negative: Fiat 1300/1500 This article is about the 1960s models. There were also the entirely different Fiat 1500s manufactured from 1935 to 1949.The Fiat 1300 and Fiat 1500 are automobiles which were manufactured by the Italian automaker Fiat from 1961 to 1967. They replaced the Fiat 1200. The 1300 and 1500 were essentially identical except for their engine displacement, as indicated by their model names.

negative: Fiberfab Avenger GT The Avenger GT was a car designed and manufactured in the United States of America, primarily in the 1960s and early 1970s. The car was manufactured by Fiberfab, a company founded by Warren "Bud" Goodwin and was the successor to the Fiberfab Aztec. The car was styled to resemble the Ford GT of racing fame in the 1960s, often referred to as the GT40.The Avenger GT came in two models: the Avenger GT-12, and the Avenger GT-15.

negative: Ford Anglia The Ford Anglia is a car that was designed and manufactured by Ford UK. It is related to the Ford Prefect and the later Ford Popular. The Anglia name was applied to various models between 1939 and 1967.A total of 1,594,486 Anglias were produced. It was replaced by the Ford Escort.

negative: Ford Country Squire The Ford Country Squire is a full-size station wagon which was built by Ford in the United States from 1950 until 1991, encompassing seven model generations. It was the premium station wagon model in Ford's full-size car range throughout this period. The Country Squire was initially built as a full "woodie". After the mid-1950s the rear body was composed of fiberglass covered by a vinyl appliqué printed to simulate wood.

negative: Ford LTD (Americas) The Ford LTD (pronounced "El-Tee-Dee," not "Limited") is a car that was manufactured by Ford for the North American market, with some vehicles made and sold in South America.  A range of full-size cars wore various forms of the LTD nameplate from 1964 to 1991 in the United States. The LTD debuted as the highest trim level on the 1965 full-size Ford range under the name Galaxie 500 LTD and became its own series for the first time in 1965.In 1982, the LTD was split into two distinct lines.

negative: Ford Mustang The Ford Mustang is an American automobile manufactured by Ford. It was originally based on the platform of the second generation North American Ford Falcon, a compact car.

negative: Ford Thunderbird (third generation) The third generation of the Ford Thunderbird is a large personal luxury car that was produced by Ford for the 1961 to 1963 model years. It featured new and much sleeker styling than the second generation models. Sales were strong, if not quite up to record-breaking 1960, at 73,051 including 10,516 convertibles. A new, larger 390 cu in (6.4 L) FE-series V8 was the only engine available (in 1961).

negative: Ford Torino The Ford Torino is an automobile which was produced by Ford for the North American market between 1968 and 1976. It was a competitor in the intermediate market segment. The car was named after the city of Turin (Torino, in Italian), considered the Italian Detroit. The Torino was initially an upscale version of the intermediate sized Ford Fairlane, which Ford produced between 1962 and 1970.

negative: Full-size Ford Full-size Ford is the popular term for a long-running line of Ford vehicles which have been produced in North America with a large degree of similarity since the Model T in 1908, up to the Crown Victoria, which ceased production in late 2011.  The term full-size does not necessarily indicate it was large relative to its competitors, but that it was the largest and most complete model offered by Ford.

negative: G & R Wrenn G&R Wrenn was a toy company specialising in the manufacture of model railways. It was founded in 1950 by George & Richard Wrenn.

negative: Hubley Manufacturing Company The Hubley Manufacturing Company produced a wide range of cast-iron toys, doorstops, and bookends. Toys, particularly motor vehicles and cap guns, were also produced in zinc alloy and plastic. The company is probably most well known for its detailed 1:25 scale metal kits of 1930s cars. For a time, Hubley participated with Detroit automakers as a plastic promotional model maker. Many Hubley toys are now sought-after collectibles.

negative: Jaguar Mark 2 The Jaguar Mark 2 is a medium-sized saloon car built from late 1959 to 1967 by Jaguar in Coventry, England. Twelve months before the announcement of the XJ6 the 2.4 Litre and 3.4 Litre Mark 2 models were renamed to Jaguar 240 and Jaguar 340 respectively. The previous Jaguar 2.4 Litre and 3.4 Litre models made between 1955 and 1959 have been identified as Mark 1 Jaguars since Jaguar produced this Mark 2 model.Until the XJ, Jaguar's postwar saloons were usually denoted by Roman numerals (e.g.

negative: Jean Daninos Jean Daninos (2 December 1906 – 13 October 2001) was a Greek-French constructor of luxury cars Facel Vega, born in Paris. The brother of the Pierre Daninos, Jean Daninos had founded the company FACEL (Forges et Ateliers des Constructions d'Eure-et-Loir, forge and construction workshop for the department of Eure-et-Loir) in 1939 with hopes of one day designing and manufacturing his own automobile.

negative: Jouef Jouef was a French manufacturer that specialized in model trains and other vehicles.

negative: King Midget King Midget was a micro car produced between 1946 and 1970 by the Midget Motors Corporation.  Although the company started out by offering a kit to build the car, they soon added completely-assembled cars and later only offered completed cars. Company founders Claud Dry and Dale Orcutt first sold the King Midget as part of their Midget Motors Supply operations in Athens, Ohio. By 1948, they began to use the name Midget Motors Manufacturing Co., too.

negative: Kyosho Kyosho Corporation (京商株式会社, Kyōshō Kabushiki Kaisha) is a model car company based in Tokyo, Japan. The brand operates internationally under the name KYOSHO. The company's main office is located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and the production headquarters are located in Atsugi, Kanagawa.The company is one of the oldest model rc car makers in Japan, and produces a wide variety of products, including radio-controlled cars, planes, helicopters, and boats.

negative: Lincoln Mark series The Lincoln Mark series is a series of personal luxury cars that were marketed as the flagship of Lincoln.  It was sold from 1956 to 1960 and from 1968 to 1998.  While most examples of the Mark series are coupes, they were also marketed in other bodystyles as well.    The Mark Series was sold by the Continental Division for 1956 and 1957.  With the discontinuation of that division, the Continental and Mark nomenclature were adopted by Lincoln as its top model line.

negative: List of model car brands This page lists model car brand names past and present. The list is inclusive with slush mold, tinplate, pressed steel, diecast zamac, white metal, plastic and resin models and toys from all over the world. A few are even made of crystal, glass, wood, coal or other materials. Some of the brands here are more toy-like and others are purely for adult collectors. Some are from design model organizations and were never intended for sale.

negative: Lotus Elan Lotus Elan is the name of two convertible cars and one fixed head coupé produced by Lotus Cars. The original Type 26, 26R Racing version (of the S1 Elan), 36R Racing version (of the S2 Elan), 36 Fixed Head Coupe, 45 Drop Head Coupe, and the "Type 50" +2 Coupe, circa 1962 to 1975, are commonly known as the 1960s Elans.

negative: Magomobil MÁG (later known as Magomobil) stands for "Magyar Általános Gépgyár Rt" (Hungarian General Machine Factory Corp.), the most important Hungarian vehicle manufacturer before World War II, based in Budapest. Its roots date back to 1901, when Podvinecz&Heisler (a company created by two young entrepreneurs, 25-year-old Dániel Podvinecz and 24-year-old Vilmos Heisler, started assembling Austrian Leesdorfer cars  - themselves being French Amédée Bollée cars built under license.

negative: Mebetoys Mebetoys was an Italian toy manufacturer that produced die-cast model cars during the 1960s and 1970s.  For most of that time the company was owned by Mattel.

negative: Mercedes-Benz W110 The W110 was Mercedes-Benz's entry level line of midsize automobiles in the mid-1960s. One of Mercedes' "Fintail" (German: Heckflosse) series, the W110 initially was available with either a 1.9 L M121 gasoline or diesel inline-four .

negative: Mercedes-Benz W111 See Mercedes-Benz S-Class for a complete overview of all S-Class models.The Mercedes-Benz W111 was a chassis code given to a range of Mercedes' vehicles produced between  1959 and 1971, including 4-door sedans (1959-1968) and 2-door coupes and cabriolets (1961 to 1971). Introduced as inline 6-cylinder cars with 2.2-litre engines, the W111 spawned two lines of variants: entry-level vehicles sharing its chassis and bodies but 4-cylinder engines were designated the W110.

negative: Mercury Marquis The Mercury Marquis is a vehicle that was marketed by the Mercury division of Ford Motor Company from 1967 to 1986. It was produced for several generations as the Mercury counterpart of the full-size Ford (its direct equivalent was the Ford LTD); in 1983, the Marquis became Mercury's mid-size car.

negative: Mercury Monterey The Mercury Monterey is a full-size car model that was introduced by Mercury in 1952. It would later share the same body style with the slightly more upscale Marquis, and the Park Lane and Montclair until the latter two were extinguished after the 1968 model year. The Marquis-Monterey body was built on a longer wheelbase and had a longer body than the Ford LTD, Ford Galaxie, and Ford Custom.

negative: Mini The Mini is a small economy car made by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and its successors from 1959 until 2000.

negative: Model car A model vehicle or toy vehicle is a miniature representation of an automobile. Other miniature motor vehicles, such as trucks, buses, or even ATVs, etc. are often included in the general category of model cars. Because many miniature vehicles were originally aimed at children as playthings, there is no precise difference between a model car and a toy car, yet the word 'model' implies either assembly required or some attempt at accurate rendering of an actual vehicle at smaller scale.

negative: Morris Oxford Farina The Morris Oxford Farina is a series of motor car models that were produced by Morris of the United Kingdom from 1959 to 1971.Named by W R Morris after the city of dreaming spires, the university town in which he grew up, the manufacture of Morris's Oxford cars had helped to turn the south-side of Oxford into a thriving industrial area.Like its predecessors, the Morris Oxford for the 1960s was a four-cylinder family car.

negative: Moskvitch 408 The Moskvitch-408 (also referred to as the Moskvich-408, and M-408) series is a small family car produced by the Soviet car manufacturer MZMA/AZLK between 1964 and 1976.The M-408, the first of the series, replaced the second generation Moskvitch 407 as the main production model; it had a longer wheelbase than the 407. Design work started in 1959, and the first prototype appeared in March 1961. The first production 408 was built 1 August 1964, and the 408 was given its official debut 21 October.

negative: Moskvitch 412 The Moskvitch 412 (Moskvich 412, M-412), also called 2140 in 1975 prior to discontinuation and 1500 SL outside USSR, was a small family car produced by Soviet manufacturer MZMA/AZLK from 1967 to 1976. It was also built as the Izh 412 by IZh in Izhevsk from 1967 to 1997 and replaced by the spun off Izh 2125 Kombi series thereafter.

negative: Norev Norev is a French manufacturer of  diecast metal model cars. It has normally produced  modern and vintage European vehicles, especially French vehicles - though Italian, German, British, and American vehicles were also produced.

negative: Oldsmobile Starfire Oldsmobile Starfire is a model of automobile produced by Oldsmobile in three non-contiguous generations beginning in 1954. The Starfire nameplate made its debut with the 1954–1956 Ninety- Eight series convertibles.  By 1957 all Ninety-Eight series models were Starfires..After a two-year hiatus a single convertible body style Starfire became available in 1961.

negative: Opel GT The Opel GT is a two-seat sports car first presented as a styling exercise in 1965 at the Paris and Frankfurt motor shows, and introduced as a production model late in 1968 by the German automaker Opel. It relied partly on components from the contemporary Opel Kadett B and had a body made by French contractor Brissonneau & Lotz.

negative: Peugeot For the article about the bicycle manufacturer, see Cycles Peugeot.Peugeot (US /puːˈʒoʊ/; UK /ˈpɜrʒoʊ/; French pronunciation: [pøʒo]) is a French cars brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën.The family business that preceded the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Emile Peugeot applied for the lion trademark.

negative: Peugeot 306 The Peugeot 306 is a small family car built by the French car manufacturer Peugeot from 1993 to 2002 replacing the 309. Peugeot gave the 306 many updates and aesthetic changes to keep up the competition but it was replaced by the 307 in 2001. Cabriolet and estate versions continued until 2002.  Versions were built in Argentina by Sevel (1996–2002).

negative: Peugeot 308 The Peugeot 308 is a small family car produced by the French car manufacturer Peugeot. It was unveiled on 5 June 2007 and launched in September 2007. Its development code was "Project T7",  and is the first car of the X08 generation of Peugeot models. The 308 features a range of petrol and diesel engine options. In March 2011, the 308 received a facelift and it premiered at the Geneva Motor Show. A second generation was unveiled in 2013 and it was awarded as the 2014 European Car of the Year.

negative: Plymouth Barracuda The Plymouth Barracuda is a two-door car that was manufactured by Plymouth from the 1964 to 1974 model years.The first-generation Barracuda, a fastback A-body coupe based on the Plymouth Valiant, had distinctive wraparound back glass and was available from 1964 to 1966.The second-generation 1967 to 1969 Barracuda, though still Valiant-based, was heavily redesigned.

negative: Plymouth Satellite The Plymouth Satellite is an automobile that was introduced as a 1965 model year top trim model in Plymouth's mid-size Belvedere line and available only in two-door hardtop and convertible body designs. The Satellite remained the top of the line model until the 1967 model year, where it became the mid-price model with the GTX taking its place as the top model. The Fury name was moved to Plymouth's mid-size models for 1975, at which time the Satellite name was discontinued.

negative: Plymouth Valiant The Plymouth Valiant (first appearing in 1960 as simply the Valiant) was an automobile manufactured by Plymouth in the United States from 1960 to 1976. It was created to give the company an entry in the compact car market emerging in the late 1950s.

negative: Pontiac Bonneville The Pontiac Bonneville is a full-size automobile which was built by Pontiac from 1957 to 2005. It was introduced as a limited production performance convertible during the 1957 model year.

negative: Pontiac GTO The Pontiac GTO is an automobile that was built by Pontiac from 1964 to 1974, and by Holden in Australia from 2004 to 2006.The first generation GTO was a muscle car of the 1960s and 1970s era. Although there were earlier muscle cars, the Pontiac GTO is considered by some to have started the trend with all four domestic automakers offering a variety of competing models.From 1964 until midway through 1973, the GTO was related to the mid-sized Pontiac Tempest/LeMans.

negative: Pontiac LeMans The Pontiac Le Mans /ləˈmɑːnz/ is a model name that was applied to compact- and intermediate-sized automobiles marketed by Pontiac from 1962 to 1981. Manufactured in five generations, the Le Mans line was replaced by the downsized Pontiac Bonneville for the 1982 model year and later resurrected from 1988 to 1993 as a badge-engineered version of the Daewoo LeMans  car manufactured by Daewoo in South Korea.

negative: Pyro Plastics Corporation The Pyro Plastics Corporation of Union, New Jersey was a manufacturer of plastic toys and model kits popular during the 1950s and 1960s.

negative: RAMI by J.M.K. RAMI by J.M.K. was a French company that made diecast collector vehicles mostly of classic French automobiles in 1:43 scale. The cars in the line-up represented actual vehicles in the Automobile Museum of the Château de Rochetaillée sur Saône (Rixon 2005, p. 72). The models were made in Lure, France, from 1958 to 1969.

negative: Radio-controlled car Radio controlled (or R/C) cars are battery/gas-powered model cars or trucks that can be controlled from a distance using a specialized transmitter or remote. The term "R/C" has been used to mean both "remote controlled" and "radio controlled", where "remote controlled" includes vehicles that are connected to their controller by a wire, but common use of "R/C" today usually refers to vehicles controlled by a radio-frequency link.

negative: Rambler Classic The Rambler Classic is an intermediate sized automobile that was built and sold by American Motors Corporation (AMC) from the 1961 to 1966 model years.

negative: Rambler Marlin The Rambler Marlin (later AMC Marlin) is a two-door fastback automobile produced in the United States by American Motors Corporation from 1965 to 1967. A halo model for the company, it was  marketed as a personal luxury car.In '65, the car was marketed as "Rambler Marlin". For '66, the car featured "Marlin" identification only, named "AMC Marlin", as was the '67 model. Its fastback roof design was previewed on the 1964 Rambler Tarpon show car, based on the compact Rambler American.

negative: Rambler Rebel The Rambler Rebel is an automobile that was produced by the American Motors Corporation (AMC) of Kenosha, Wisconsin for the 1957–1960 model years, as well as again for 1966 and 1967.Introduced as a stand-alone model in one body style, the 1957 Rambler Rebel is credited for being the first factory-produced intermediate-sized high-performance car. This later became known as the muscle car market segment.

negative: Rambler Six and V8 The Rambler Six and the Rambler V8 are intermediate sized automobiles that were built and marketed by American Motors Corporation (AMC) from 1956 to 1960.Launched on 15 December 1955, the 1956 model year Rambler Six ushered a "new era in motoring has begun" according to George W. Romney, President of AMC. In 1956, the Rambler was sold through both Nash and Hudson networks of dealerships.

negative: Renault 21 The Renault 21 is a large family car produced by French automaker Renault between 1986 and 1994. It was also sold in North America initially through American Motors dealers as the Renault Medallion and later through Jeep-Eagle dealers the Eagle Medallion.

negative: Renault 9 & 11 The Renault 9 and Renault 11 are two compact cars produced by the French manufacturer Renault for model years 1981–1988 in saloon (Renault 9) and hatchback (Renault 11) configurations — both were styled by the French automobile designer, Robert Opron.Variants were manufactured by American Motors Corporation (AMC), as the Renault Alliance and Renault Encore for the North American market — as well as for the Colombian market from 1983–1999.

negative: Renault Reinastella The Renault Reinastella is an automobile created by the French car maker Renault. The original Reinastella was a luxury-class car manufactured between 1929 and 1933.The car was unveiled at the 1928 Paris Motor Show as the Renault Renahuit. The original Reinastella was the first of Renault's Stella series, high-end luxury automobiles intended to compete with contemporary marques such as Hispano-Suiza, Rolls-Royce, Daimler, Packard, and LaSalle.

negative: Richard Vyškovský Richard Vyškovský (born 13 July 1929, Vienna, Austria) is a Czech architect and author of paper models.In 1960s Vyškovský worked for State institute for reconstruction of historic towns and monuments (SÚRPMO) in Prague. After a discussion withcolleagues, complaining about limited availability of die-cast Matchbox scale cars sold in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic only in Tuzex shops, he decided to create as similar model from paper.

negative: Rootes Arrow Rootes Arrow was the manufacturer's name for a range of cars produced under several badge-engineered marques by the Rootes Group (later Chrysler Europe) from 1966 to 1979. It is amongst the last Rootes designs, developed with no influence from future owner Chrysler. The range is sometimes referred to by the name of the most prolific model, the Hillman Hunter.A substantial number of separate marque and model names applied to this single car platform.

negative: Sablon diecast Sablon was a Belgian company near Brussels that made diecast zamac toy cars in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Models were mostly in 1:43 scale.

negative: Salmson Salmson was a French engineering company, initially in the automobile and aeroplane manufacturing area,turning to pump manufacturing in the 1960s.

negative: Sinpar The Sinpar was a French automobile manufactured from 1907 until 1914.  The company built De Dion-engined voiturettes in Courbevoie; cars used either 4½ hp or 8 hp power units.  An 8 hp four produced from 1912 until 1914 was identical with the 8 hp Demeester.The name "Sinpar" was meant to suggest that the car was "without equal" ("sans pareil").

negative: Solido Solido is a French manufacturer of die-cast model cars and trucks based in Oulins, Anet, France, about 40 miles west of Paris.  Vehicles are usually made of zamac  alloy in varying scales, but mostly 1:43.

negative: Spa Croft Models Spa Croft Models is a British company based in Tibshelf, Derbyshire, close to Hardwick Hall, the home of Bess of Hardwick. The company has been producing 1/43rd scale whitemetal models of British cars since 1995.The company produces models of cars from around the 1930s to the 1960s.

negative: Stahlberg Models Stahlberg was a Finnish company producing promotional plastic  model cars mainly of Swedish Saab and Volvo automobiles usually in scales between 1:18 and 1:25. Stahlberg made models from the 1960s to about 1992, though its modern counterpart, Emek continues to make truck models (Klockau 2012).Other Finnish companies producing similar sized plastic models were Aren, Emek Muovi, Ju Ju, Hot Toys, KMS Myynti, Muovo, Nyrhinen Ky, and Plasto.

negative: Standard Vanguard The Standard Vanguard was a car produced by the Standard Motor Company in Coventry from 1947 to 1963.The car was announced in July 1947, was completely new, with no resemblance to the previous models, and was Standard's first post-Second World War car.

negative: Sunbeam Alpine The Sunbeam Alpine is a sporty two-seat open car produced by Sunbeam from 1953 to 1955, and then 1959 to 1968. The name was then used on a two-door fastback from 1969 to 1975. The original Alpine was launched in 1953 as the first vehicle from Sunbeam-Talbot to bear the Sunbeam name alone since the 1935 takeover of Sunbeam and Talbot by the Rootes Group.

negative: Tamiya Corporation Tamiya Incorporated (株式会社タミヤ, Kabushiki gaisha Tamiya) is a Japanese manufacturer of plastic model kits, radio controlled cars, battery- and solar-powered educational models, sailboat models, acrylic and enamel model paints, and various modeling tools and supplies. The company was founded by Yoshio Tamiya in Shizuoka, Japan in 1946.The metal molds were produced from plans which had the concept of being "easy to understand and build, even for beginners".

negative: Tesla Model S The Tesla Model S is a full-sized plug-in electric five-door, luxury liftback, produced by Tesla Motors. Since its introduction in June 2012 it has achieved rapidly growing sales, particularly in Norway and California. It scored a perfect 5.0 NHTSA automobile safety rating. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official range for the Model S Performance model equipped with an 85 kWh battery pack is 265 miles (426 km), topping the Tesla Roadster to lead the electric car market.

negative: The Sleeping Car Murders The Sleeping Car Murders (French title: Compartiment tueurs) is a 1965 French mystery film directed by Costa-Gavras from the novel by Sébastien Japrisot. It stars Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner and Pascale Roberts. This film was the first movie for Costa-Gavras, to be followed later by other, more politically serious work.

negative: Toyota Publica The Toyota Publica is a small car manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota from 1961 to 1978. Conceived as a family car to fulfil the requirements of the "national car concept", it was the smallest Toyota car during that period and was superseded in that role by the Toyota Starlet, which itself started out as a version of the Publica.

negative: Triumph Vitesse The Triumph Vitesse is a compact six-cylinder car built by Standard-Triumph from May 1962 to July 1971. The car was styled by Giovanni Michelotti, and was available in saloon and convertible variants.The Vitesse name was first used by Austin on their 1914–16 Austin 20 (hp) and 30 (hp) Vitesse models, this was followed in 1922 by G.

negative: Trofeu Trofeu is a line of 1/43 scale diecast vehicles made by Replicar in Portugal. The company was started in 1989, in Espinho just south of Oporto - the same town where Metosul and Luso Toys had previously been made in the 1960s and 1970s. Trofeu products are mainly contemporary rally cars alongside their stock counterparts.

negative: Volkswagen Beetle The Volkswagen Beetle (officially the Volkswagen Typ 1, informally in Germany the Volkswagen Käfer and in the USA as Volkswagen Bug) is a two-door, four passenger, rear-engine economy car manufactured and marketed by German automaker Volkswagen (VW) from 1938 until 2003.The need for this kind of car, and its functional objectives, were formulated by Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany, wishing for a cheap, simple car to be mass-produced for the new road network of his country.

negative: Volkswagen Type 2 The Volkswagen Type 2, known officially (depending on body type) as the Transporter,  Kombi or Microbus, or, informally, as the Bus (US) or Camper (UK), is a cabover panel van introduced in 1950 by the German automaker Volkswagen as its second car model.

negative: Volvo 140 Series The Volvo 140 Series is a range of compact executive cars which was produced by Volvo Cars of Sweden from 1966 to 1974. The range comprises the Volvo 142 2-door sedan, the Volvo 144 4-door sedan and the Volvo 145 5-door station wagon.Volvo Cars began manufacturing the Volvo 144 at Torslandaverken in the late summer of 1966 for the 1967 model year.

negative: Volvo Amazon The Volvo Amazon is a mid-size car manufactured and marketed by Volvo Cars from 1956 to 1970 and introduced in the USA as the 122S at the New York International Auto Show in April 1959.The Amazon shared the wheelbase, tall posture and high H-point seating of its predecessor, the PV and was offered two-door sedan, four-door sedan, and a five-door wagon body styles.

negative: Volvo PV444/544 The Volvo PV is a series of two-door, four-passenger car models — the PV444 and the PV544 — made by Volvo from 1947 to 1966. During World War II's early stages, Volvo decided that a new, smaller car that could deliver good fuel economy would assure the company's future. A raw materials shortage during the war drove home the point that an automobile should be smaller, and also complicated Volvo's ability to mass-produce the product.


query: banana paper making

positive: Banana paper Banana paper is used in two different senses: the one refers to a paper made from the bark of the banana plant,and which is mainly used for artistic purposes; the other to paper made from banana fiber obtained, through an industrial process, from stems and the non-utilizable fruits.

negative: Abacá Abacá (/ɑːbəˈkɑː/ ah-bə-KAH; Spanish: abacá [aβaˈka]), binomial name Musa textilis, is a species of banana native to the Philippines, grown as a commercial crop in the Philippines, Ecuador, and Costa Rica. The plant, also known as Manila hemp, has great economic importance, being harvested for its fiber, also called Manila hemp, extracted from the leaf-stems. The plant grows to 13–22 feet (4.0–6.7 m), and averages about 12 feet (3.7 m).

negative: Banana, Cape Verde Banana is a settlement in the central part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. It is situated 3 km northeast of São Domingos.

negative: Banana The banana is an edible fruit, botanically a berry, produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called plantains. The fruit is variable in size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant.

negative: Banana Republic Banana Republic is a clothing and accessories retailer owned by American multinational corporation, Gap Inc.It was founded in 1978 by Mel and Patricia Ziegler with a safari theme; in 1983, Gap purchased the company and gave it a more upscale image. Banana Republic has over 600 stores located internationally.

negative: Banana flour Banana flour is a powder traditionally made of green bananas that is often used as a gluten free replacement to wheat flours  or as a source of resistant starch, which has been promoted by certain dieting trends such as paleo and primal diets and by some recent nutritional research.

negative: Banana freckle Banana freckle is a disease caused by the fungus Guignardia musae (telomorph) or Phyllosticta musarum (anamorph). Generally, the causal agent of disease is referred to as Guignardia-Phyllosticta sp. There are several different strains of the fungus that exist to infect different banana varieties around the globe. Symptoms include yellowing of the tissue and formation of small dark brown spots on the leaves and fruit. Within the spots, conidia or pycnidia can be found.

negative: Banana leaf Banana leaves have a wide range of applications because they are large, flexible, waterproof and decorative. They are used for cooking, wrapping and food serving in a wide range of cuisines of tropical and subtropical areas. Banana leafs are used for decorative and symbolic purposes in numerous Hindu and Buddhist ceremonies. In traditional home building in the tropical areas, roofs and fences are made of thatched dry banana leaves.

negative: Banana peel A banana peel, known as a banana skin in British English, is the outer covering of the banana fruit.Bananas are a popular fruit consumed worldwide with a yearly production of over 145 million tonnes in 2011. Once the peel is removed, the fruit can be eaten raw or cooked and the peel is generally discarded. Because of this removal of the banana peel, there is a significant amount of organic waste being generated.Banana peels are used as feedstock as they have some nutritional value.

negative: Banana production in Brazil Banana production in Brazil accounts for approximately 10% of the entire world banana production, making Brazil a major banana-producing country in the world.  Production has steadily increased over the years, rising from 5.4 million tonnes in 1997 to almost 7 million tonnes in 2007. In 2000, Brazil was fourth, behind India, Uganda and Ecuador, in banana production.  By 2006, Brazil became the second largest banana-producer, behind only India, followed by China, Ecuador and the Philippines.

negative: Banana production in the Caribbean Banana production in the Caribbean is widespread. Bananas are cultivated by both small farmers and large land holders. The plant is perennial and is planted either in pure stands or in mixed cultivation, such as in Jamaica.

negative: Banana production in the United States Banana production in the United States is few. Banana cultivation in Florida has been about 500 acres, valued at roughly 2 million US $. In early 2010's, there is an improved importance in increasing US banana production to please various niche markets, including the market for natural and processed bananas. US banana production is very partial;  in 2009, US total banana making reached approximately 7,000 mmt, or 0.01% of the total globe production, on an estimated 16,000 acres.

negative: Banana wine Banana wine is a fruit wine made exclusively from bananas. It is different from banana beer, which has a long tradition and great cultural significance in East Africa. Blocker et al. (2001) wrote a chapter on "Banana Wine" in the book "Alcohol and temperance in modern history: an international encyclopedia", though this is slightly confusing, as they define what is traditionally referred to as banana beer as being banana wine.

negative: Bananas!* Bananas!* is a 2009 Swedish documentary directed by Fredrik Gertten about a conflict between the Dole Food Company and banana plantation workers in Nicaragua over alleged cases of sterility caused by the pesticide DBCP.The film was criticized by Dole for containing "patent falsehoods". After a screening at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2009, Gertten was sued for defamation by Dole on 8 July.

negative: Bananas, Beaches and Bases Bananas, Beaches and Bases (full title: Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics) is a book by Cynthia Enloe. It is one of the leading contributions to feminist international relations theory.

negative: Bark Bark is the outermost layers of stems and roots of woody plants.  Plants with bark include trees, woody vines, and shrubs. Bark refers to all the tissues outside of the vascular cambium and is a nontechnical term. It overlays the wood and consists of the inner bark and the outer bark. The inner bark, which in older stems is living tissue, includes the innermost area of the periderm.

negative: Bird Machine Company Bird Machine Company was a company founded in the early 1900s making machines for paper making and then developing into other types of equipment.  Bird Machine Company was acquired by Baker Hughes, Incorporated in 1989.

negative: Cartridge paper Cartridge paper is a high quality type of heavy paper used for illustration and drawing. Paper of this type was originally used for making paper cartridges for firearms.

negative: Cooking plantain A plantain, or cooking plantain, (/ˈplæntɨn/, US /plænˈteɪn/, UK /ˈplɑːntɨn/) is one of the less sweet cultivated varieties (cultivars) of the genus Musa whose fruit is also known as the banana.

negative: Cottonwood Paper Mill The Cottonwood Paper Mill (also known as Granite Paper Mill) is an abandoned stone structure located at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon in Cottonwood Heights, Utah.  It was built in 1883 by the Deseret News under the direction of Henry Grow.  Workers used paper making equipment brought in from the old Sugar House Paper Mill to grind logs from nearby canyons into pulp.  Rags gathered from old clothes were also used to produce the pulp, which was then placed into molds and dried.

negative: Decision-making This article deals with decision-making as analyzed in psychology. See also Decision theory.In psychology, decision-making is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several alternative possibilities. Every decision-making process produces a final choice that may or may not prompt action. Decision-making is the process of identifying and choosing alternatives based on the values and preferences of the decision-maker.

negative: Dwarf Cavendish banana The Dwarf Cavendish banana is a widely grown and commercially important Cavendish cultivar. The name "Dwarf Cavendish" is in reference to the height of the pseudostem, not the fruit. Young plants have maroon or purple blotches on their leaves but quickly lose them as they mature. It is one of the most commonly planted banana varieties from the Cavendish group, and the main source of commercial Cavendish bananas along with Grand Nain.

negative: Ensete lasiocarpum Ensete lasiocarpum, commonly known as Chinese dwarf banana, golden lotus banana or Chinese yellow banana, is a plant of the Ensete genus. It is thus a close relative of bananas, and also a member of the Musaceae family. The plant is native to the Yunnan province in China, where it grows high in the mountains up to an altitude of 2500 m. It is known for its yellow erect flower (see image), generally appearing during the second year of cultivation, that can last a few months.

negative: Flour Flour is a powder made by grinding uncooked cereal grains or other seeds or roots (like cassava). It is the main ingredient of bread, which is a staple food for many cultures, making the availability of adequate supplies of flour a major economic and political issue at various times throughout history.

negative: Francis Wolle Francis Wolle (December 17, 1817 – 1893) was an American inventor.In 1852 he invented and patented the paper bag-making machine. In 1869 he and his brother founded a paper bag-making company called Union Paper Bag Machine Company in Savannah. His company generated $4 million income in one year. Currently his company is under the ownership of International Paper.

negative: Grammage Basis weight and grammage  are  terms used in the pulp and paper industry and also for fabric industry to denote a measure of mass of the product per unit of area for a type of fabric, paper or paperboard.  Two ways of expressing grammage are commonly used: Expressed in grams per square meter (g/m2), paper density is also known as grammage. This is the measure used in most parts of the world. Expressed in terms of the mass (expressed as weight) per number of sheets, it is known as basis weight.

negative: Graph paper Graph paper, graphing paper, or millimeter paper is writing paper that is printed with fine lines making up a regular grid. The lines are often used as guides for plotting mathematical functions or experimental data and drawing two-dimensional graphs. It is commonly found in mathematics and engineering education settings and in laboratory notebooks. Graph paper is available either as loose leaf paper or bound in notebooks.

negative: Hinde & Dauch Paper Company The Hinde & Dauch Paper Company was an international paper-making company that was based in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. The firm was founded as Sandusky Paper Company by W. J. Bonn in 1880.Two developers of a hay-baling process, James J. Hinde and Jacob J. Dauch, later purchased the company. It was ultimately acquired by the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company.A 2009 story in the Sandusky Register recalled the days of a century before, when the company employed 350 workers in the city.

negative: History of paper Paper was invented in ancient China during the Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD) and spread slowly to the west via the Silk Road. Papermaking and manufacturing in Europe was started by Muslims living on the Iberian Peninsula, (today's Portugal and Spain) and Sicily in the 10th century, and slowly spread to Italy and Southern France reaching Germany by 1400.

negative: Kan't Kopy paper Kan't Kopy safety paper is a type of security paper printed with a moiré pattern in order to resist counterfeiting original documents. It has an embedded mark making copying obvious, as a side effect deterring further copying.

negative: Lemper Lemper is an Indonesian savoury snack made of glutinous rice filled with seasoned shredded chicken, fish or abon (meat floss). The specific lemper filled with seasoned shredded chicken is called  lemper ayam (lit: chicken lemper). The meat filling is rolled inside the rice, in a fashion similar to an egg roll; this is in turn rolled and wrapped inside a banana leaf, oil paper, plastic sheet or tinfoil to make a packet ready for serving.

negative: List of banana cultivars The following is a list of banana cultivars and the groups into which they are classified. Almost all modern cultivated varieties (cultivars) of edible bananas and plantains are hybrids and polyploids of two wild, seeded banana species, Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. Cultivated bananas are almost always seedless (parthenocarpic) and hence sterile, so they are propagated vegetatively.

negative: Manila paper Manila paper is a relatively inexpensive type of paper, generally made through a less refined process than other types of paper. It is typically made from semi-bleached wood fibres. It is not as strong as kraft paper but has better printing qualities. Manila is buff-coloured and the fibres are usually visible to the naked eye. Because this paper is generally inexpensive, it is commonly given to children for making art.Manila paper was originally manufactured in the Philippines, hence the name.

negative: Matthias Koops Matthias Koops (active 1789–1805) was a British paper-maker who invented the first practical processes for manufacturing paper from wood pulp, straw, or recycled waste paper, without the necessity of including expensive linen or cotton rags.Koops was born in Pomerania, the son of Matthias and Katherina Dorothea Koops. By 1789 he had emigrated to England, for he leased a house in Edmonton, London, that year. In 1790 married Elizabethe Jane Austen at St Marylebone Parish Church.

negative: Meyrick's banana hedyleptan moth Meyrick's banana hedyleptan moth (Omiodes meyrickii) is a species of moth in the Pyralidae family. It is endemic to the island of Oʻahu in Hawaiʻi.The larvae feed on banana. Young larvae feed gregariously on the under surface of a banana leaf along the side of the midrib. They spin a slight web for mutual protection, being covered by this and their excrement which is caught and retained by the web.

negative: Mummy paper Mummy paper is paper that is claimed to be made from the linen wrappings and other fibers (e.g. papyrus) from Egyptian mummies imported to America circa 1855.   The existence of this paper has not been conclusively confirmed, but it has been widely discussed.

negative: Museum of Paper Making and Printing, Łódź The Museum of Paper Making and Printing (Polish: Muzeum Papieru i Druku w Łodzi) in Łódź is located in the area of the Institute of Paper Making and Printing at Lodz University of Technology.

negative: Paper Paper is a thin material produced by pressing together moist fibres of cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets.It is a versatile material with many uses, including writing, printing, packaging, cleaning, and a number of industrial and construction processes.It and the pulp papermaking process is said to have been developed in China during the early 2nd century AD, possibly as early as the year 105 A.D., by the Han court eunuch Cai Lun, although the earliest archaeological fragments of paper derive from the 2nd century BC in China.The modern pulp and paper industry is global, with China leading its production and the United States right behind it.

negative: Paper (Queen Latifah song) "Paper" is the second song of a double-A sided single from Queen Latifah's 1998 album Order in the Court. One of the first Queen Latifah songs that is all singing and no rap, it is essentially a cover of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" with significantly altered lyrics. The song was produced by Pras of The Fugees.

negative: Paper Cities Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy is a 2008 speculative fiction anthology edited by Ekaterina Sedia.

negative: Paper Clips Project The Paper Clips Project, by middle school students from the small southeastern Tennessee town of Whitwell, created a monument for the Holocaust victims of Nazi Germany. It started in 1998 as a simple 8th-grade project to study other cultures, and then evolved into one gaining worldwide attention. At last count, over 30 million paper clips had been received. Paper Clips, an award-winning documentary film about the project, was released in 2004 by Miramax Films.

negative: Paper bag party Paper bag parties were multi-racial social events at which only individuals with complexions at least as light as the color of a brown paper bag were admitted. The term also refers to larger issues of class and social stratification within the African-American population.

negative: Paper cup forming machine Paper cup forming machine is a kind of machine which is used for making the disposable paper cup.

negative: Paper machine This article contains a glossary section at the end.Many modern papermaking machines are based on the principles of the Fourdrinier Machine, which uses a specially woven plastic fabric mesh conveyor belt (known as a wire as it was once woven from bronze) in the forming section, where a slurry of fibre (usually wood or other vegetable fibres) is drained to create a continuous paper web.

negative: Paper mill A paper mill is a factory devoted to making paper from vegetable fibres such as wood pulp, old rags and other ingredients using a Fourdrinier machine or other type of paper machine.

negative: Paper mulberry The paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera, syn. Morus papyrifera L.) is a species of flowering plant in the family Moraceae. It is native to Asia, where its range includes China, Japan, Korea, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, and India. It is widely cultivated elsewhere and it grows as an introduced species in parts of Europe, the United States, and Africa. Other common names include tapa cloth tree.

negative: Paper popper A paper popper is a party prank that is commonly practiced in public schools. There are many variations of a paper popper, but they all involve a folded sheet of paper being gripped and thrust down. This causes air to be forced into the paper's folded flaps, making the paper flaps pop out in the opposite direction at a high velocity, thus making a loud popping noise. According to popular misconception the sound is supposed to be caused by the paper breaking the sound barrier.

negative: Paper recycling There are three categories of paper that can be used as feedstocks for making recycled paper: mill broke, pre-consumer waste, and post-consumer waste. Mill broke is paper trimmings and other paper scrap from the manufacture of paper, and is recycled internally in a paper mill. Pre-consumer waste is material which left the paper mill but was discarded before it was ready for consumer use.

negative: Paper sack A paper sack is a packaging made of paper high quality and weight, usually kraft virgin fiber, which is normally used for transporting powder materials, such as flour, cement, animal feed, etc.  Multi-wall paper bags usually have several layers of heavy duty kraft paper, sometimes with a highly printed paper on the outside.  Plastic films and coated papers are sometimes used as inner layers to provide a moisture barrier, and resistance to rodents and insects.

negative: Papermaking Papermaking is the process of making paper, a material which is used universally today for writing and packaging.In papermaking, a dilute suspension of fibres in water is drained through a screen, so that a mat of randomly interwoven fibres is laid down. Water is removed from this mat of fibres by pressing and drying to make paper. Since the invention of the Fourdrinier machine in the 19th century, most paper has been made from wood pulp because of cost.

negative: Parchment paper Parchment paper and bakery release paper are cellulose-based papers that are used  in baking as a disposable non-stick surface. Both are also called bakery paper or baking paper. It should not be confused with waxed paper, also known as wax paper or rarely as butter paper.

negative: Pattern (sewing) In sewing and fashion design, a pattern is the template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric before being cut out and assembled. Patterns are usually made of paper, and are sometimes made of sturdier materials like paperboard or cardboard if they need to be more robust to withstand repeated use.

negative: Photographic paper Photographic paper is a paper coated with a light-sensitive chemical formula, used for making photographic prints.  When photographic paper is exposed to light it captures a latent image that is then developed to form a visible image, with most Printing out Papers the image density from exposure can be sufficient to not require further development, aside from fixing and clearing, though latent exposure is also usually present. The light-sensitive layer of the paper is called the emulsion.

negative: Pulp and paper industry The pulp and paper industry comprises companies that use wood as raw material and produce pulp, paper, board and other cellulose-based products.The industry is dominated by North American (United States and Canada), northern European (Finland, Sweden, and North-West Russia) and East Asian countries (such as East Siberian Russia, China, Japan, and South Korea). Australasia and Brazil also have significant pulp and paper enterprises.

negative: Rhino Horn banana Rhino Horn bananas, also called Rhino Horn plantains or African Rhino Horn, are hybrid banana cultivars from Africa. It produces strongly curved and elongated edible bananas which can grow to a length of two feet, making them have the longest fruits among banana cultivars.

negative: Rice paper Rice paper is an umbrella term that has been used to collectively refer to several paper-like materials from East-Asia made from various plants. In different context rice paper may refer to:Thin peeled dried pith of Tetrapanax papyrifer: A sheet-like "paper" material was used extensively in late 19th century Guangdong China as a common support medium for gouache paintings sold to Western clients of the era.

negative: Ruled paper Ruled paper (or lined paper) is writing paper that typically consists of horizontal lines meant to separate lines of hand-written text, and vertical lines meant to provide margins or to act as tab stops.A popular alternative to lined paper is graph paper (square paper or grid paper). It is a grid layout in which horizontal and vertical lines are equally spaced, dividing the page into squares.

negative: Saba banana Saba banana is a triploid hybrid (ABB) banana cultivar originating from the Philippines. It is primarily a cooking banana though it can also be eaten raw. It is one of the most important banana varieties in Philippine cuisine. It is also sometimes known as the cardaba banana, though the latter name may be more correctly applied to a very similar cultivar also classified within the saba subgroup.

negative: Seed paper Seed paper is a type of handmade paper that includes any number of different plant seeds. The seeds themselves can still germinate after the paper making process and they can sprout when the paper is planted in soil.Papermakers have been producing paper including seeds in the United States since 1941, but international papermakers have practiced seed inclusion in paper for centuries.

negative: Surface chemistry of paper The surface chemistry of paper is responsible for many important paper properties, such as gloss, waterproofing, and printability. There are many components that are used in the paper-making process. The interactions between these components are responsible for creating the properties of the paper. The types and quantities of ingredients used can be adjusted to reach the desired properties.

negative: Tacacho Tacacho is a roasted banana Amazonian cuisine dish from Peru. It is usually served con cecina with bits of pork.The Ecuadorian cuisine version of the dish is called bolón de verde.

negative: The Boy's Own Paper The Boy's Own Paper was a British story paper aimed at young and teenage boys, published from 1879 to 1967.

negative: Toyo Straw Toyo straw is a type of shiny smooth straw made chiefly in Japan with shellacked rice paper. This material is commonly used for straw hats and fedoras.

negative: Washi Washi (和紙) is a style of paper that was first made in Japan.  Washi is commonly made using fibers from the bark of the gampi tree, the mitsumata shrub (Edgeworthia chrysantha), or the paper mulberry, but also can be made using bamboo, hemp, rice, and wheat.  The word "washi" comes from wa 'Japanese' and shi 'paper', and the term is used to describe paper made by hand in the traditional manner.