Lafayette Bay Company

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Lafayette Bay Company
legal form
founding 1975
Seat Wayzata , Minnesota , USA
management Brian V. Bedell
Branch Plastics

Lafayette Bay Company is an American company in the plastics and former manufacturers of automobiles .

Company history

The company was incorporated on November 20, 1975 in Wayzata , Minnesota . In the same year the production of automobiles and kit cars began . The brand name was Lafayette . Production ended in 1985.

The company is still active.

vehicles

The only model was a replica of a Bugatti Type 35 . The open body offered space for two people. One version had a chassis from the VW Beetle and its air-cooled four - cylinder boxer engine in the rear. Another variant had a front engine from the Ford Pinto .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Bugatti Replica (III).
  • 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. 846. (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Bugatti Replica (III).
  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. 846. (English).
  3. ↑ a b opencorporates (English, accessed on March 18, 2017).
  4. ^ Allcarindex (English, accessed on March 18, 2017).