Esprit Coachworks

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Esprit Coachworks Inc.
legal form Inc.
founding 1982
resolution 1986
Seat Downey , California , USA
Branch Automobiles

Esprit Coachworks Inc. was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded on August 3, 1982 in Downey , California . Other sources name Corona and Hawaiian Gardens , also in California. It sold kit cars from other manufacturers such as Fierro . In 1982 the company started producing automobiles and kit cars. The brand name was Esprit . Production ended in 1986.

vehicles

The Pantera model was a replica of De Tomaso Pantera . There were with the Cobra a replica of the AC Cobra . A chassis from the VW Beetle and a tubular frame were available. On the one hand, a V8 engine from Ford and on the other hand various V6 and V8 engines from American production have been handed down.

The Fierro was also a VW-based sports car .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Esprit.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 506-507. (English)
  3. ↑ opencorporates (English, accessed on March 11, 2017)
  4. ^ D'Auto (Dutch, accessed March 11, 2017)
  5. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed on March 11, 2017)