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The Austin 8 is a small car which was produced by Austin between 1939 and 1948.. Launched on 24 February 1939, [3] production continued into the war until 1943. Approximately 9,000 - 9,500 of the wartime Austin models were two-seater military 8AP tourers produced for the armed services and government, and the rest were four light saloons, six light saloons, two and four seater tourers and vans.
A company named "Fibre Fab" was established in the UK in 1970 that produced fiberglass body kits for Volkswagen chassis. Despite the similar name, they were not related in any way to Fiberfab in the US or any of its foreign branches. Fibre Fab was founded by partners Robert Taylor, Anthony Hill, and Trevor Pym in Crowthorne, Berkshire.
Body kit components are designed to complement each other and work together as a complete design, but often owners will 'mix and match' pieces from different body kits. Automotive body kits are usually constructed of either fiberglass, polyurethane, or in some cases metal or carbon fiber. Fiberglass is cheap and widely available, although it ...
Harley-Davidson briefly offered a second trike model called the Street Glide Trike with fewer standard features, starting in the 2010 model year. [5] The Street Glide Trike is no longer manufactured. Harley released a new trike model in 2015, the Harley-Davidson Freewheeler .
In 1952, Austin entered into another agreement with Datsun for assembly of 2,000 imported Austins from "knock-down kits", to be sold in Japan under the Austin trademark. The agreement called for Nissan to make all Austin parts locally within three years, a goal Nissan met. Nissan produced and marketed Austins for seven years.
Type of body Cyl. Disp. Sold From To; 25/30 hp: Open tourer Clément-Gladiator motorcar assembled for financier Du Cros with different ("Austin") radiator: 4 5,182 67 1906 1907 15/20 hp: 4 4,151 4 1906 1906 18/24 hp: Limousine, Phaeton, Cabriolet, s.w.b. Ranelagh 2-seater with dickey seat 4 4,399 1,575 1907 1913 40 hp: Endcliffe, York 4 5,843 ...
The Devin D could be bought in kit form, with a basic body-and-frame kit costing US$895.00. A much more complete kit that included a laminated safety glass windshield, folding soft top, side curtains, upholstery and leather-covered bucket seats, chrome bumpers, brake and fuel line, and working head, tail, parking and directional lights was ...
Bill Tritt, at the time, was building small fiberglass boat hulls in his Costa Mesa, California, factory and he convinced Ken that fiberglass was the ideal material for the hot rod body. Tritt made sketches of a body and, with Ken and his wife's approval, proceeded to make the body plug and mold for a low-slung, continental-style roadster .