Sports Automobile Manufacturing Company

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Sports Automobile Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1968
resolution 1970
Seat Mannford , Oklahoma , USA
management Bill Landers
Branch Automobiles

Sports Automobile Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in 1968 in Mannford , Oklahoma . Involved in this were William Lear , Bill Landers and Howard Williams. Elfman Motors from Philadelphia was taken over, which in turn had previously acquired the remains of the Cord Automobile Company . The production of automobiles began. The brand name was Samco . Production ended in 1970. A total of around 400 vehicles were built.

vehicles

One source states that 13 vehicles of the previous Sportsman model were initially produced.

The offer included replicas of models by Cord from the 1930s. The vehicles were smaller than the original. Technically, they differed considerably, because they had a front engine and rear-wheel drive instead of front-wheel drive . The front headlights were mounted in the fenders , but not hidden behind flaps.

The Warrior model was based either on the chassis of a Ford Econoline or a tubular frame with a 2741 mm wheelbase . A V8 engine from Ford with a capacity of 5000 cm³ propelled the vehicles. It was an open two-seater.

The Royale had a 2868 mm wheelbase and a Chrysler V8 engine with a displacement of 7200 cc. The cabriolet offered space for four people.

One of the 400 vehicles produced has a German license plate from Kiel .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Cord (II).
  • 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. 1409. (English)
  • Ron Kowalke: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975. Krause Publications, Iola 1997, ISBN 0-87341-521-3 , p. 813. (English)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Cord (II).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1409. (English)
  3. ↑ a b The story of Cord (accessed February 18, 2017)
  4. ↑ David LaChance: Return of the Sportsman - Cord vom September 2009 (English, accessed February 18, 2017)
  5. ^ A b Ron Kowalke: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946–1975. Krause Publications, Iola 1997, ISBN 0-87341-521-3 , p. 813. (English)
  6. ↑ Jochim M. Köstnick: DMAX. Antique car. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-613-03788-5 , p. 165.