Maverick Motors

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Maverick Motors was an American automobile manufacturer based in Mountain View, California between 1953 and 1955 .

A large two-seater roadster with a GRP body was built. The wheelbase was - depending on the engine - between 3048 mm and 3251 mm, the total length 4877 mm. The grille was from LaSalle from 1940, the headlights from the Lincoln from 1949–1951 and the parking lights from 1949 Mercury . Depending on the buyer's wishes, the car had no, one or two doors. The stern had the shape of a boat, which was modern in the 1930s.

Buyers could choose any contemporary V8 engine as a drive, but the standard unit for the 1953 Cadillac was 5426 cc and developed 210 bhp (154 kW). Equipped in this way, the vehicles weighed 1404 kg and cost US $ 3850.00.

Only seven vehicles were built by 1955.

literature

  • John Gunnell: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975. Krause Publications, Iola 2002, ISBN 0-87349-461-X . (English)
  • 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. 977. (English)
  • Elmar Siepen: From the shadows. In: Auto Zeitung Classic Cars. Edition 9/2017. Hamburg 2017, pp. 134–139.