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The 3-wheeled 100% electric Corbin Sparrow
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Welcome to CorbinSparrow.com. Since you came to this site, there is a good chance you saw one of these little electric motorcycles and wondered what they were. I thought the same thing when I first saw pictures of them back in 1999. Well, they were made by Corbin Motors in Hollister, California from 1999-2002 and were called Sparrows.
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Back in 1999, information on the Sparrow was available on the CorbinMotors website. However, due to the fact that CorbinMotors filed Chapter 7 Bankrupcy, their website is no longer available. Therefore, this website was built for informational purposes. (Please note: this website is in no way affiliated with CorbinMotors, Corbinmotors.com or Corbin. Those names are trademarks of their repective companies.) Since a total of only 285 Corbin Sparrows were manufactured and put on the road, very few are actually out driving around.
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A couple of the original "jelly bean" style Sparrows parked in front of Corbin Motors. In the rear is one of Corbins first electric motorcycles.
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Corbin Sparrows came in two different body styles, a jellybean model and a pizzabutt model(lovingly referred to that because Dominos Pizza order several as delivery vehicles). Sparrows also came in an array of bright colors. Buyers could choose from lime green, yellow, silver, coral, aqua, lilac, teal, magenta, white,green, blue and orange, as well as two-toned and polka dotted. After looking for several years, I was able to track one down that was for sale, and in 2004, I purchased Lime Green Pizza-butt Sparrow #158. It is 1 of 285 total Sparrows ever built and 1 of only 185 pizza-butt models. Unfortunately, even less than that have survived worldwide with several catching on fire.(VIN #1-100 were jellybeans. #100-on were pizzabutts.)
Comments or suggestions? Send me email at
ckr1@aol.com.
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Originally offered at $13,900 for first production "jellybean" models, the Sparrow was later sold for $16,995 for the "pizza-butt" models.
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