Avante Cars

Avante Cars
legal form
founding	1982
resolution	1986
Seat	Stoke-on-Trent , Staffordshire , United Kingdom
management	Melvyn Kay
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Avante

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Avante Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Melvyn Kay founded the company in Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire in 1982 . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Avante . Production ended in 1986. Top Hat Coachworks from Blackpool under the direction of Paul de Roma continued production in 1987. A total of about 30 copies were made.

vehicles

The chassis of the VW Beetle formed the basis of the vehicles . A coupé body was mounted on it. Usually an air-cooled four - cylinder boxer engine from the VW Beetle powered the vehicle, but water-cooled four - cylinder in- line engines from Volkswagen were also available.

The first model was two-seater. About 25 copies were made between 1982 and 1987.

In 1983 the +2 added to the range. It was bigger and longer and could accommodate 2 + 2 people. About five copies were made by 1987.

literature

• George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 120. (English)
• Steve Hole: AZ of Kit Cars. The definitive encyclopaedia of the UK's kit-car industry since 1949 . Haynes Publishing, Sparkford 2012, ISBN 978-1-84425-677-8 , pp. 31-32 (English).

Web links

Commons : Avante Cars  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Allcarindex (accessed March 1, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 120. (English)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Steve Hole: AZ of Kit Cars. The definitive encyclopaedia of the UK's kit-car industry since 1949 . Haynes Publishing, Sparkford 2012, ISBN 978-1-84425-677-8 , pp. 31-32 (English).