Arntz Engineering Company

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Arntz Industries
Arntz Engineering Company
legal form Company
founding 1970s
resolution 1981
Seat San Francisco , California , USA
management Steve Arntz
Branch Automobiles

Arntz Engineering Company , previously Arntz Industries , was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Steve Arntz founded Arntz Industries in San Francisco , California . Automobile production started either in 1971 or 1977. The brand name was Arntz . The vehicles sold very well. Arntz Engineering Company was founded on November 29, 1978 in the same city. Production ended in 1981.

vehicles

The only model was a replica of the AC Cobra . The chassis developed by Huffaker Engineering was a steel ladder frame. The front suspension came from the MG B and the rear from the Jaguar E-Type . A V8 engine , often from Chevrolet , powered the vehicles.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Arntz.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 76. (English)
  3. ↑ a b Allcarindex (English, accessed on February 25, 2017)
  4. ^ D'Auto (Dutch, accessed February 25, 2017)
  5. ↑ opencorporates zur Arntz Engineering Company (English, accessed on February 25, 2017)