Frontenac Motor Corporation

The Frontenac Motor Corporation was a joint US-based company of Louis and Gaston Chevrolet in Indianapolis. Louis returned in 1915 to the Indianapolis 500 race back after he had left Chevrolet. In the first year of his new career, he drove a Cornelian, but in 1916 he sat behind the wheel of a car he built.

The company was named after the Frontenac governor of the French colonies in North America in the 17th century. The Frontenac race car could run in 1916 and 1917 on the racetrack considerable success. In World War car races were set; but then Frontenac was back and was on display until 1921 on the race track. Then the Chevrolet brothers withdrew from racing.

In the same year, the designer Cornelius van Ranst went into the company, whose president was Louis Chevrolet. There should be a touring car with four-cylinder engine in series to be built, but was due to the poor economic conditions in the United States only as a prototype. Already In May 1923, the company was forced to declare bankruptcy. But Chevrolet constructed another touring car with eight-cylinder engine and hydraulic brakes on all four wheels. But even from this was only a prototype. 1925, the Frontenac Motor Corporation was finally dissolved.

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• Kimes, Beverly Ray & Clark jr. Henry Austin: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. Krause Publications, Iola WI, 1985, ISBN 0-87341-045-9.

• Former Automobile Manufacturers Association ( United States)
• Company (Indianapolis )