Taking on the
same styling cues as the Nova and Avante as well as being VW Beetle based this
was a kit car offered by Gunter Ledl from Austria. Production started in 1981
with the car offered with a 4 cylinder Ford engine under the rear of that
fibreglass wedge body, producing about 100bhp. They were sold all over the
world but strangely due to the laws in Austria registering them there was very
difficult. In fact only 17 were sold to domestic customers out of the 249
manufactured up to 1987.
The only reason
for the production to be stopped was a change in the law that required
catalytic converters to be fittedand they couldn't be fitted to this car.
I’ve not been
able to find out much about it but I guarantee after sitting in an Avante
recently that if you close to 6 foot tall you’ll struggle to get in let alone drive one.
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nice to see my Photos there... you know what is copyright?
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