Ascort

Ascort on the folk festival in Port Adelaide ( 2008)

The Ascort is a passenger car that was manufactured by the Australian coachbuilder Continental Coachworks in Sydney in 1958 to 1960.

It is basically a VW Beetle, which was transformed into a four-seater sports coupe. He had a spacious, two-ply fiberglass body and saw the VW Karmann Ghia of the 1970s, very similar. With a wheelbase of 2400 mm, the vehicles were 4000 mm long, 1575 mm wide and 1448 mm high. The 1.2 -liter four- cylinder boxer engine engine was tuned with a performance kit from Okrasa and made 54 hp ( 40 kW). The empty weight was 740 kg, which made ​​for an impressive acceleration. In total, more than 12 examples were built. The Ascort reached a Höchstgeschwindigikeit of 153 km / h There were also plans a 1.5 - liter engine with 70 hp installed ( 51 kW ), which would have brought a top speed beyond 160 km / h, but it never came.