Pacific Coachworks

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Pacific Coachworks
legal form
founding 1978
resolution 1983
Seat Goleta , California , USA
Branch Automobiles

Pacific Coachworks was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1978 in Goleta , California . The production of automobiles began. The brand name was Di Napoli , occasionally written DiNapoli , from 1980 possibly Pacific Coachworks . Production ended in 1983. A total of five or seven vehicles were built.

Marauder & Co. continued production under its own name.

vehicles

The only model was a 1930s-style vehicle. Chassis , drive and the middle part of the body came from the Buick shelf . A V6 engine from Buick with 3800 cc displacement with turbocharger propelled the vehicles. Another source names an engine from the Corvette . The closed body offered space for five people.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Di Napoli.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 437. (English)
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1169. (English)
  • James M. Flammang: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1976-1986. Krause Publications, Iola 1988, ISBN 0-87341-113-7 , p. 420. (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Di Napoli.
  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. 437 and p. 1169. (English)
  3. ^ D'Auto zu Di Napoli (Dutch, accessed March 5, 2017)
  4. ↑ a b c d James M. Flammang: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1976–1986. Krause Publications, Iola 1988, ISBN 0-87341-113-7 , p. 420. (English)
  5. ^ D'Auto on Pacific Coachworks (Dutch, accessed March 5, 2017)
  6. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed on March 5, 2017)