Charles Town-About

Charlestown About was an American automobile brand, which in 1958 and 1959 by the Stinson Aircraft Tool & Engineering Corporation in San Diego in California was built.

Charles H. Graves, vice president of the company, had an elegant, four-seater coupé with two doors built, the GRP body of which looked similar to a VW Karmann Ghia and had the rear lights of a DeSoto from 1957. Two electric motors on the rear wheels were used to drive the car, each developing 2.35 kW. The range of the 1359 kg and US $ 2895 expensive vehicle was 120–130 km.

A pickup called Van-About was planned, but was never made.

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Charles Town-About.
• 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. 265. (English)
• John Gunnell: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975. Krause Publications, Iola 2002, ISBN 0-87349-461-X .

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 Charles Town-About.
2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 265. (English)