- Apal
Apal is a small scale automobile company originally from Belgium. It is now based in Germany.
Phase 1 -APAL - s.à.r.l. Application Polyester Armé de Liège (1961-1998)
Glass-fibre specialist "Edmond Pery" founded this small
automobile manufacturing company inBlegny -Trembleur (Liège),Belgium in 1961. Pery presented his first model, a GT coupe with gull-wing doors, propelled byVolkswagen orPorsche engines at the Brussels "Autosalon" (or "Salon auto de Bruxelles") in 1962.In 1965, Apal started producing a Formule V single-seater.
Between 1968 and 1973, about 5000 glass-fibre bodies were produced for different buggy models such as Apal Buggy, Apal Rancho, Apal Jet, Apal Avvi, Apal Corsa (with gull-wing doors) and Apal Horizon.
The most successful model was called the Apal Speedster and is a replica of the
Porsche 356 model, built on aVW Beetle floorplan. Altogether 700 were completed between 1981 and 1994.The last model, named the Apal Sport One, based on
Pontiac Fiero , appeared in 1992.Edmond Pery also designed an all-road prototype for
DAF in 1974 and another prototype for Volkswagen in 1992.The small firm produced and sold all models in limited numbers.Phase 2 - Apal Gmbh, Germany (1998- to date)
The original Belgian company went down in 1998.
Apal Gmbh , a German company of Ostercappeln, bought all the spare parts and restarted production of the Apal Speedster.As of 2006 the company has stopped production of ready-built cars and now only sells kits and spare parts.
External links
*http://rvccb.be/LISTE%20CONSTR.%20BELGES/A.html#apal
*http://apal.de
* [http://users.telenet.be/apalclubbelgium/apalclubbelgium/index.htm Apal Club Belgium]
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