At 09:18 AM 1/28/99 -0500, Tim Nagy wrote:
>Being sucluded from these types of "Obscure" cars, when I hear of a new
>one (to me, that is), I have to find out what it looked like.
>
>This is what I found on the Davrian. Looks like a track beast...
>
>http://www.shiga-med.ac.jp/people/sugimoto%27s/Davrian.html
>
>
>Tim
>
>Nory P wrote:
>>
>> Might you be talking about a Davrian? The Complete Catalog of British
>> cars doesn't have a listing for Davron, but has the following short
>> entry for Davrian:
>>
>> The Davrian is a difficult make to quantify in production terms for
>> the cars have been mainly track machines. But as nearly all products
>> have been equally at home on the road and track, they are perhaps most
>> accurately described as sports/racing cars. In the early days, the
>> Davrian was Hillman Imp-powered, but later a variety of power units
>> could be had - from Rootes and Ford for example. Later still,
>> production settled down to two Imp derivatives - one destined for road
>> use, the other tuned for the track. As these were specialist cars, it
>> would be unwise to be dogmatic about specificatons, for the individual
>> owner decided his own requirements.
I looked this one up also. The above is correct.In 1976 the company moved
to Wales and produced 60 cars. In 1981 it introduced a new model the "
Dragon" ,
It was a new body with (are you ready for this?) a Ford Fiesta running gear.
In 1983 the company folded and was acquired by Will Corey ( the infamous
Will Corry who was forced out of the MGCC for bad things? or someone else?)
Anyway he launched the "Corry" which led to the "Darrian" by Tim Duffee
Now there is a bunch of unimportant information.
All of this is gathered from a wonderful book called "A to Z of Sports Cars
1945 to 1995. " You name the obscure car, and its in there.
Mike
|