Beck (car brand)

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Beck GTS

Beck is an American automobile brand.

Brand history

Chuck Beck founded Beck Development in Upland , California in the early 1980s . He started producing automobiles in 1982 or 1984. The brand name is Beck . In 1986 there was a partnership with Kevin Hines from Special Edition Inc. from Bremen , Indiana .

The name Beck Development Corporation , based in Atlanta , Georgia, has been handed down for a current model .

One source states that Beck Development was the manufacturer only until 2002, then Chuck Beck Motorsport of Wimberley , Texas until 2003, after moving from Baldwin Park , California until 2005, and then until 2009 Automotive Legends North America Inc. of Malibu , California .

In the past there was a connection to Chamonix NG Cars from Brazil .

vehicles

The offer includes replicas of classic sports cars from Porsche . These are Porsche 356 as a Speedster, Porsche 550 and Porsche 904 . The bodies are made of plastic .

The Shogun from the 1990s was a Ford Festiva with a 200 hp Ford Taurus engine in the rear.

The replica of a racing sports car from Lister Cars , whose engine came either from Jaguar or Corvette , came from the same decade .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , Beck chapter (IV).
  • 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. 140. (English)

Web links

Commons : Beck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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 , Beck chapter (IV).
  2. ^ A b c d e George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 140. (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d website of the Beck Development Corporation (English, accessed on January 22, 2017)
  4. ↑ Information from Special Edition Inc. (accessed January 22, 2017)
  5. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed on January 22, 2017)