Marauder & Co.

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Marauder & Co.
legal form
founding between 1970 and 1980
resolution between 1990 and 2007
Seat Potomac , Illinois , USA
management Randy Berry
Branch Automobiles

Marauder & Co. was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was based in Potomac , Illinois . It made automobiles and kit cars . The brand name was Marauder . There are different data on the production period: from 1980 to unknown, from 1975 to 1993, from the 1970s to the 1990s or from 1980 to 2007.

vehicles

Sports cars were on offer . Most of them were replicas of well-known models. First of all, the Lola T 70 , McLaren M 6 B , Ferrari 512 M and Chevron B 16 are mentioned , the first three of which were designed as mid -engine vehicles with V8 engines . The latter had a simpler structure and was given either Mazda , Porsche , Volkswagen or V8 engines.

In 1982, replicas of the De Tomaso Pantera and Lamborghini Countach followed, and later the BR-X, a replica of the Ferrari Testarossa .

The replica of a Ferrari 250 GTO had a front engine from Chevrolet or Ford . The body was made of either aluminum or fiberglass .

In addition, the Di Napoli was distributed by Pacific Coachworks .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Marauder (II).
  • 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. 948. (English)
  • Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, London 2000, ISBN 0-7864-0972-X , p. 186. (English)

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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 Marauder (II).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 948. (English)
  3. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, London 2000, ISBN 0-7864-0972-X , p. 186. (English)
  4. ^ D'Auto (Dutch, accessed March 19, 2017)
  5. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed on March 19, 2017)