Engineered Motor Products

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Engineered Motor Products Inc.
legal form Inc.
founding 1956
resolution 1985
Seat Riverside , California , USA
Branch Automobiles

Empi buggy
Rear view

Engineered Motor Products Inc. was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded on March 9, 1956. The registered office is Riverside in California . In 1960, the production of automobiles and kit cars began under the direction of Joe Vittone . The brand name was Empi . Production ended in 1985.

vehicles

The first Empi GTV vehicles were tuned VW Beetles . One version had an engine with 1700 cm³ displacement .

The Imp was an early version of a VW buggy , but still with an aluminum body . A variant was intended for the six - cylinder boxer engine of the Chevrolet Corvair . Ordinary buggies with fiberglass bodies were added later .

The dealership Südhannover took the Buggy as a model for their own buggy.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Empi.
  • 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. 496. (English)
  • James Hale: Dune Buggy Handbook. The A – Z of VW-based buggies since 1964 . Veloce Publishing, Dorchester 2013, ISBN 978-1-84584-378-6 , pp. 58-61 (English).

Web links

Commons : Engineered Motor Products  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Empi.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 496. (English)
  3. ↑ opencorporates (English, accessed on February 18, 2017)