The Cunningham Company

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The Cunningham Company
legal form Company
founding 1996
resolution 2003
Seat Seattle , Washington , USA
management Briggs S. Cunningham III.
Branch Automobiles

The Cunningham Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Briggs S. Cunningham III, a descendant of Briggs Cunningham , founded the company on December 20, 1996 in Washington State . Other sources mention Lime Rock in Connecticut . In 1997 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Cunningham , just like BS Cunningham vehicles . Production ended in 2000. On March 24, 2003 the company was dissolved.

In addition, the branch Cunningham Historic Motor Car Company in Litchfield , Connecticut is handed down from July 6, 1998, the trace of which is lost after 2002.

vehicles

The only model was a replica of the Cunningham C4-R . These were racing cars. The body was made of aluminum . A V8 engine from Chrysler drove the vehicles.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Cunningham (V).
  2. ^ A b c d e George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 358. (English)
  3. ↑ a b opencorporates (English, accessed on March 4, 2017)
  4. ↑ d'Auto (Dutch, accessed March 4, 2017)
  5. ↑ a b Allcarindex (English, accessed on March 4, 2017)
  6. ↑ opencorporates on the Litchfield, Connecticut office (accessed March 4, 2017)