Alpha Design & Engineering

Alpha Design & Engineering
legal form
founding	1983
resolution	1985
Seat	Huntington Beach , California , USA
management	Joe Alphabet
Branch	Automobiles

Alpha Design & Engineering was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Ferrari 1983 -expert Joe Alphabet founded the company in Huntington Beach in California . With the takeover of a project from Eagle Manufacturing , the production of automobiles and kit cars began . The brand name was Alpha , possibly with the addition GTO or 1 . However, an advertisement for an Alpha GTO model , i.e. without 1 . Production ended in 1985. Another source states that production was said to have run until 1990.

vehicles

The only GTO model was a replica of a Ferrari 250 GTO . The coupe was based on the 240 Z Datsun . Various engines from Datsun and Chevrolet powered the vehicles.

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , Chapter Alpha (II); Alpha GTO.
• George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 38. (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , Chapter Alpha (II); Alpha GTO.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 38. (English)
3. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed on February 25, 2017)
4. ^ D'Auto (Dutch, accessed February 25, 2017)