Auto Craft Northwest

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Auto Craft Northwest
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founding 1967
resolution 1968
Seat Portland , Oregon , USA
Branch Automobiles

Auto Craft Northwest was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was based on NE Alberta Street in Portland , Oregon . It manufactured automobiles and kit cars between 1967 and 1968 . The brand name was Auto Craft Northwest .

vehicles

One model was a VW buggy . It was based on a chassis from the VW Beetle . An air-cooled four - cylinder boxer engine in the rear propelled the vehicles.

The Mk III was a sports car on the same basis. It resembled a model from Fiberfab , the Fiberfab Avenger or the Fiberfab Valkyrie depending on the source . The installation of V8 engines from Chevrolet and the six-cylinder boxer engine from the Chevrolet Corvair should have been possible.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , Chapter MK III.
  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. 114. (English)
  3. ↑ a b c Allcarindex (English, accessed on March 19, 2017)
  4. ↑ a b d'Auto (Dutch, accessed March 19, 2017)