Arawak Motors

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Arawak Motors Ltd. was an importer and manufacturer of automobiles on the Caribbean island of Antigua operating in the 1970s and 1980s.

Company history

The company was based in Saint John's , Antigua. The island, which at that time still belonged to the United Kingdom , only became an independent state of Antigua and Barbuda in 1981 . Arawak Motors imported vehicles from Chrysler . It also manufactured automobiles and marketed them as Arawak . There are different details about the production period: either from 1976 to 1978, from 1976 to 1980 or from 1978 to 1984.

It is not known whether the name Arawak refers to the Arawak indigenous people .

vehicles

The only production model Hustler was a vehicle in the style of the Mini Moke . Many parts came from the Hillman Imp . This included the four-cylinder rear engine with a displacement of 875 cm³ . The open body was made of fiberglass .

After the Imp had ceased production, the Hustler II was designed, which probably did not go into series production. It had a four-cylinder engine from the Vauxhall Viva with 1256 cc displacement, which was installed in the front of the vehicle.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Arawak.
  2. ↑ a b c d George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 64 (English).
  3. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed on November 26, 2016)
  4. ^ D'Auto (Dutch, accessed November 26, 2016)