La Dawri Coachcraft

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La Dawri Coachcraft was an American wheelwright and automobile manufacturer.

description

The company was founded in Long Beach , California in 1957 and later moved to Los Alamitos , also in California.

From 1957 a roadster with three seats was built under the name La Dawri Conquest . The vehicle, which looked like a Porsche from the front and a Chevrolet Corvette from the rear , could be ordered with different engines of the buyer's choice and cost US $ 395 as a body kit .

Other models were Quest , Daytona , Del Mar , Castilian , Sicilian , Cavalier , Vixen , Cheetah , Firestar , Centurion and Formula Libre .

In 1969 the company was dissolved.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter La Dawri.
  • 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 , p. 845. (English)
  • John Gunnell: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975. Krause Publications, Iola 2002, ISBN 0-87349-461-X . (English)