Gatsby Coachworks

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Gatsby Coachworks Ltd. United States
legal form
founding 1979
resolution 1998
Reason for dissolution Takeover by JPR Cars Ltd.
Seat San Jose , California , USA
Branch Automobiles

Gatsby
interior

Gatsby Coachworks Ltd. USA was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded on April 10, 1979 in San José , California . The production of automobiles and kit cars began. The brand name was Gatsby . There are also references to the name Gatsby Productions , according to one source as early as 1982, according to another source from 1989.

In 1998 JPR Cars Ltd. the enterprise.

vehicles

One model was the Gatsby . This was a 1930s-style vehicle similar to the Clénet Coachworks cars . The chassis came mostly from Ford and in other cases from General Motors . Initially, the body was made of steel and from 1983 optionally made of fiberglass .

The Griffin was the successor to the Scepter from the Scepter Motorcar Company . It had a Ford chassis and always had a fiberglass body.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Gatsby.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 608-609. (English)
  • James M. Flammang: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1976-1986. Krause Publications, Iola 1988, ISBN 0-87341-113-7 , p. 427. (English)

Web links

Commons : Gatsby Coachworks  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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 Gatsby.
  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 , pp. 608-609. (English)
  3. ↑ opencorporates (English, accessed on February 18, 2017)
  4. ↑ a b James M. Flammang: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1976–1986. Krause Publications, Iola 1988, ISBN 0-87341-113-7 , p. 427. (English)