Astro Designs

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Astro Designs Coach Builders
legal form
founding 1979
resolution around 1990
Seat Canoga Park , California , USA
Branch Automobiles

Astro Designs 540 K from 1982
Rear view

Astro Designs Coach Builders was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was based in Canoga Park , California . It made automobiles and kit cars . The brand name was Astro Designs . Production ended around 1990.

vehicles

Initially, vehicles were built using kits from California Component Cars , Thoroughbred Coach Builders and Roaring Twenties Motor Car Company . These included the sterling , the British Nova corresponded, as well as a replica of the Mercedes-Benz 540 K . A dealer from Austria offered such a replica in 2013.

Ray Garrish designed the first Garrish Countach of his own . The body was similar to the Lamborghini Countach , but based on the Sterling from California Component Cars. A plastic body was mounted on a tubular steel frame. A V8 engine from the Cadillac Eldorado powered the vehicles.

literature

Web links

Commons : Astro Designs  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Astro Designs.
  2. ^ A b c d George Nick Georgano (editor-in-chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 90. (English)
  3. ↑ Former offer of a vehicle by a dealer in Austria (accessed on February 18, 2017)