Apal

The Apal Coupé was built from 1961 to 1965 and was created as a fiberglass body on a VW Beetle chassis.

1966 Apal Formula Vau single-seater.

The Apal Horizon GT was a fiberglass mid-engined sports car that was built in low numbers in 1968 and 1969.

Apal was a small Belgian car factory. In the meantime, the company has switched production and produces luxury bathrooms. The “Apal” brand has been taken over by a German company.

Application Polyester Armé de Liège s.à.rl (1961–1998)

Fiberglass specialist Edmond Pery founded the automobile manufacture in Blegny- Trembleur (Liège) in 1961. Pery presented his first model, a GT Coupe, powered by Volkswagen or Porsche engines, at the 1962 Brussels Motor Show .

1965 Apa began with the production of a Formula V - single-seater .

Between 1968 and 1973 around 5000 fiberglass bodies were produced for various buggies, such as the Apal Buggy, the Apal Rancho, the Apal Jet, the Apal Avvi, the Apal Corsa (with gullwing doors) and the Apal Horizon.

The most successful model was the Apal Speedster, a replica of the Porsche 356 , based on a shortened VW Beetle chassis. 700 Speedsters were built from 1981 to 1994.

The last model, the Apal Sport One, was based on the Pontiac Fiero and was introduced in 1992.

Edmond Pery also designed a four-wheel drive prototype for DAF in 1974 and another prototype for Volkswagen in 1992.

Apal GmbH, Germany (since 1998)

The Belgian company closed in 1998. Apal GmbH, a German company from Ostercappeln, acquired all the spare parts and began producing the Apal Speedster in-house.

In 2006, the company stopped the production of complete vehicles because the approval regulations were too high after the VW Beetle production was phased out, and has since been limited to the sale of kits and spare parts.

License models

In 1998 the businessmen and company owners Laurent Skrzypczak and Olivier Baudouin acquired the French car manufacturer PGO Automobiles from Saint-Christol-lez-Alès . With the takeover of the company, the licenses for the Apal Speedster were transferred to the newly acquired company. Since the model name of the Speedster was already occupied by a Cobra replica, the development of which went back to the previous owner, the model was built there from 1998 to 2004 under the name PGO 356 Classic . The PGO Speedster II , which has been available since 2002, can therefore be seen as the official, but actually an indirect successor .

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