Knudsen Automotive

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Knudsen Automotive Inc.
legal form Inc.
founding 1978
resolution 1995
Seat Omaha , Nebraska , USA
management Russell A. Knudsen
Branch Automobiles

Knudsen Automotive Inc. was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Russell A. Knudsen founded the company in 1978 in Omaha , Nebraska . The exact date of establishment is not known. He started with the production of automobiles. The brand name was Knudsen . As of October 16, 1984, there was an office in Iowa . Production ended in 1995.

Rage Exotic Vehicles LLC , which was also founded in Omaha on December 26, 2007, sees itself as something like the successor company.

vehicles

The first Baroque model was a 1930s style vehicle. As a coupé , it offered space for four people. It was also available as a convertible . A V8 engine with a displacement of 3800 cm³ has been handed down for a single vehicle . This model was discontinued around 1983. A total of eleven vehicles were built, including two convertibles.

Tojan and Carralo followed in 1985 . They were based on the Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird .

In addition, were Chevrolet Suburban tuned .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , Chapter Knudsen (II).
  2. ^ A b c d George Nick Georgano (editor-in-chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 832. (English)
  3. ↑ opencorporates (English, accessed on March 18, 2017)
  4. ↑ opencorporates on the Iowa office (accessed March 18, 2017)
  5. ^ Allcarindex zu Baroque (English, accessed on March 18, 2017)
  6. ↑ a b Allcarindex zu Knudsen (English, accessed on March 18, 2017)
  7. ↑ opencorporates on Rage Exotic Vehicles (accessed on March 18, 2017)
  8. ↑ Rage Exotic Vehicles (accessed March 18, 2017)
  9. ^ D'Auto zu Baroque (Dutch, accessed March 18, 2017)
  10. ↑ Auction 2012 (accessed March 18, 2017)
  11. ↑ a b d'Auto zu Knudsen (1985–1991) (Dutch, accessed March 18, 2017)
  12. ^ D'Auto zu Knudsen (1992) (Dutch, accessed March 18, 2017)