Gordon-Keeble
Gordon - Keeble was a British automobile manufacturer (all in England) only produced in Slough, then Eastleigh and finally in Southampton 1963-1967 cars. Trademark was a turtle.
The Gordon - Keeble was born when John Gordon - formerly employed at the automobile manufacturer Peerless - and Jim Keeble came together in 1959 to establish the Gordon GT by mounted a Buick -3 ,5- liter V8 engine in a Peerless drivers. The car - still in the development stage - was then tested with a Chevrolet V8 engine in an electrically welded chassis made of rectangular tubes with independent front suspension to trapezoidal - triangular wishbones and coil springs and disc brakes all round. Back received the Gordon - Keeble a De Dion axle with longitudinal thrust struts and lateral guidance by a Watt's linkage. The roadworthy chassis was then sent to Turin, where Bertone built a personality marked by Giugiaro aluminum body. The four 5 " of the car headlights were arranged so that the car is a " Mongols had sight ", an arrangement that was used by only a few other manufacturers, such as Rolls -Royce and Triumph.
The finished car was exhibited at the Bertone stand at the Geneva Motor Show 1960. After extensive road testing the car was sent to Detroit and showed him the Chevrolet Board, which then agrees agreed to supply 4.6 liter V8 engines and transmissions, the Chevrolet Corvette for production.
The design was then prepared for production, with some alterations have been made, in particular a larger 5.4 -liter engine from the Chevrolet Corvette and a body of fiberglass. There were problems with suppliers; before the official start of production ran out of money and the company had to declare insolvency. An initial batch of about 90 cars (now approx 52200 euros ) were sold at a price of GBP 2798.
1965 bought Harold Smith and Geoffrey West on the company and operated it as Keeble Cars Ltd.. Register. The production was recorded, but only for a short time. The last vehicle of this period was produced in 1966. Another car was built from spare parts in 1967, bringing the total number of all produced Gordon - Keeble rose to exactly 100.
Another attempt by De Bruyne engine to allow the production start up again in 1968, failed.
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In the English thriller series " Waking the Dead - On behalf of the dead " is a sequence in a Gordon - Keeble an important trace dar.