Davis Motorcar Company
The Davis Motorcar Company was an American automobile manufacturer who was a California resident from 1947 to 1949 in Van Nuys in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles. Founder was Glenn Gordon Davis.
The Davis D -2 " Divan " was a two-door coupe with four seats, three wheels and retractable headlights. The aerodynamically designed aluminum body concealed the two rear wheels completely and wore a heavily curved windscreen and a similar rear window. The car was driven initially by a front built side-valve four-cylinder in-line engine of ' Hercules '', which consists of 2175 cc, a power of 46 bhp (34 kW) at 3000 min-1 moved. In the later units had been built instead a four-cylinder engine from Continental 2655 cc and 58 bhp was (42 kW) installed at 3000 min -1. The wheelbase of the car was initially 2743 mm, 2781 mm later. Its length was uniformly 4712 mm.
Due to its three wheels of the car in curves tended to tipping and the factory specifications for maximum speed (187 km / h) and consumption of U.S. $ 995 expensive vehicle were unrealistic. It emerged only 13 or 15 copies. In addition there were three prototypes of a three-wheel well quarter - ton military vehicle with five seats, after the beginning of the serial numbers often referred to as " 494 ", built.
Glenn Davis saw in 1949 exposed a fraud trial for Insolvenzverschleppung and was sentenced despite protestations of innocence.
A " 494 " "in the National Automotive and Truck Museum, Auburn, IN