Trihawk

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Trihawk
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Trihawk was an American automobile brand.

Brand history

The author Elvis Payne thinks that it originated in 1982 with a design by Lou Richards. Bob McKee, David Stollery, Dick Kleber and Bill Molzon helped with further development. Accordingly, the Design Lab Inc. from Mokena in Illinois produced ten to twelve pre-series vehicles in 1982. In 1983 series production began by Hawk Vehicles Inc. in Dana Point , California . Production ended in 1985 after Harley-Davidson took over the company.

The author James M. Flammang confirms Hawk Vehicles from Dana Point for 1983 .

The d'Auto website confirms the construction period from 1983 to 1985.

The Society for Technical Supervision called up on TriHawk Inc. instead of Hawk Inc. , the same company and years.

A brochure with a test report in Road & Track magazine from May 1982 names the manufacturer Hawk Vehicles Inc. from Dana Point.

Author George Nick Georgano names Bob McKee and David Stollery as developers. Production is said to have taken place from 1983 to 1985 at McKee Engineering in Dana Point and then from 1985 to around 1987 at Trihawk Inc. in Milwaukee , Wisconsin . Harley-Davidson was interested and may have taken over the project but not mass-produced it. The author Chris Rees and the website Allcarindex make the same information.

The authors Harald Linz and Harald Schrader present the situation differently. According to this, Bob McKee was the developer. Joseph N. Spada manufactured the vehicles from 1983 in his company Trihawk Vehicles Co. in Los Angeles , California, which was converted into a public company in 1985. Production only ended in 1991 when Harley-Davidson bought the design rights.

In 1983 50 vehicles were built. The information on the total number of vehicles varies between 90 and 100 and around 250 vehicles.

vehicles

The only model was a tricycle with a rear single wheel. An air-cooled four - cylinder boxer engine from the Citroën GSA with a displacement of 1299 cm³ drove the front wheels. A tubular steel frame formed the base. The body was strikingly flat and made of fiberglass . It was open, doorless and offered space for two people. As a prototype , a is coupe with gullwing doors made of aluminum survived.

literature

Web links

Commons : Trihawk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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 Trihawk.
  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 , pp. 1609-1610. (English)
  3. ^ A b c Elvis Payne: The AZ of Three-Wheelers. A definitive reference guide. Nostalgia Road, Manchester 2013, ISBN 9781908-347169 , p. 114. (English)
  4. ↑ James M. Flammang: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1976-1986. Krause Publications, Iola 1988, ISBN 0-87341-113-7 , p. 438. (English)
  5. ^ D'Auto (Dutch, accessed January 22, 2017)
  6. ↑ GTÜ Society for Technical Supervision (accessed on January 22, 2017)
  7. ↑ Brochure with a test report in Road & Track magazine from May 1982: front and back (English, accessed on January 22, 2017)
  8. ↑ Chris Rees: Three Wheelers A – Z. The definitive encyclopedia of three-wheeled vehicles from 1940 to date. Quiller Print, Croydon 2013, ISBN 978-0-9926651-0-4 , p. 201. (English)
  9. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed on January 22, 2017)