Seltzer Motor Industries

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Seltzer Motor Industries
legal form
founding 1979
resolution 1983
Seat Chatsworth , California , USA
Branch Automobiles

Seltzer Motor Industries was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded on April 30, 1979 in Chatsworth , California . The production of automobiles and kit cars began. The brand name was Seltzer . Production ended in 1983.

The Toppo Manufacturing Company with the same address continued production under its own name until 1985.

vehicles

The only model was the Willow . A tubular frame formed the basis of the two-seater sports car . The coupe had a targa roof . A four-cylinder engine from the Ford Pinto with a capacity of 2000 cm³ was mounted transversely to the direction of travel behind the seats in a mid-engine design and drove the rear wheels. The curb weight was given as 809 kg.

literature

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 Seltzer and Toppo.
  2. ↑ a b c George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1434. (English)
  3. ↑ opencorporates (English, accessed on February 18, 2017)