Brubaker (make of car)

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Brubaker was an American automobile brand.

Brand history

Brubaker Group or Brubaker Industries was based in Los Angeles , California . Curtis Brubaker was the operator. In 1972 the company manufactured automobiles designed by Curtis Brubaker. There were also plans for kit cars . The brand name was Brubaker . A total of three vehicles were built.

vehicles

The only model was the box . The basis was a chassis of the VW Beetle . A body in the form of a minivan, which was atypical for the time, was mounted on it. The five-seat vehicle only had one door. This was a sliding door on the right side of the vehicle. The bumpers were made of wood . The vehicles were powered by an air-cooled four - cylinder boxer engine with a displacement of 1600 cm³ .

Automecca continued production under its own brand name until 1978.

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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 Brubaker.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 202 (English).
  3. ↑ AutoBild: Brubaker Box - The coolest Beetle clone in the world From February 19, 2015 (accessed July 12, 2020)
  4. ↑ a b Thomas Voehringer: 1972 Brubaker Box - Historic Flashbacks from October 10, 2013 (English, accessed February 18, 2017)