Object Details
- Whizzer Motor Company
- Description
- Whizzer motor kits for bicycles, and complete Whizzer motorbikes like this one, were very popular after World War II. The relatively low cost of purchasing and riding a motorbike made personal mobility accessible and affordable for thousands of teenagers and adults. This motorbike was purchased by Americo Petrongelli in 1951 when he was 18. He rode it near his home in Chicago Heights, Illinois and commuted to work on it. He also gave rides to neighborhood kids on the fuel tank. After he married, he made the extra seat so that his three sons would not have to sit on the fuel tank.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Raymond I. Spangler, Mary Stuart Spangler, and Jonathan Spangler
- 1950
- ID Number
- 2004.0233.01
- accession number
- 2004.0233
- catalog number
- 2004.0233.01
- Object Name
- motor bike
- Whizzer motorbike
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- leather (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 45 in x 28 in x 74 in; 114.3 cm x 71.12 cm x 187.96 cm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
- Bicycling
- America on the Move
- Transportation
- Road Transportation
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1293139
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-ee03-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
