Valiant Auto Company
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 2:05 amValiant Auto Company was founded in 1952 in Los Angeles, California. Throughout the 50s and 60s, it was a very competitive company, mainly due to the reasonably low prices on their base model cars.
The company only ever had one or two model lines being sold at once, and at their peak their demand was far higher than the amount of cars they could make (due to issues like a shortage of staff, not enough assembly plants etc).
The only models that they ever produced were the:
Hurricane (1954 - 1974, 2004-2006)
Super Hurricane (1965-1974)
Constellation (1964 - 1974)
When the oil crisis in 1973 happened, Valiant was hit hard. Sales dropping dramatically, they continued the build their cars until 1974 when the sales dropped even further. Because the company had counted on the public to continue buying gas guzzling cars, they had put a lot of money towards increasing staff wages and building more production plants. Because of the shortage of money, they were unable to build a new line of efficient engines and so they decided to begin seizing all of their operations on the same day. The final 100 models of each of the cars were numbered and were given unique badges that showed which of the final 100 they were (few still exist, and so they are ultra rare. A 1974 Super Hurricane was sold at a Barrett Jackson auction not so long ago for over 2 million USD). The rights to the company were bought by GM, who kept the name under copyright for 40 years. In 2004, GM attempted to revive the company by building a new model of "Hurricane", which used the GM W platform. The car didn't sell particularly well in 2004 or 2005 and was discontinued in 2006. At the end of 2006, GM finally declared Valiant as being defunct.
**Cars to come soon**
The company only ever had one or two model lines being sold at once, and at their peak their demand was far higher than the amount of cars they could make (due to issues like a shortage of staff, not enough assembly plants etc).
The only models that they ever produced were the:
Hurricane (1954 - 1974, 2004-2006)
Super Hurricane (1965-1974)
Constellation (1964 - 1974)
When the oil crisis in 1973 happened, Valiant was hit hard. Sales dropping dramatically, they continued the build their cars until 1974 when the sales dropped even further. Because the company had counted on the public to continue buying gas guzzling cars, they had put a lot of money towards increasing staff wages and building more production plants. Because of the shortage of money, they were unable to build a new line of efficient engines and so they decided to begin seizing all of their operations on the same day. The final 100 models of each of the cars were numbered and were given unique badges that showed which of the final 100 they were (few still exist, and so they are ultra rare. A 1974 Super Hurricane was sold at a Barrett Jackson auction not so long ago for over 2 million USD). The rights to the company were bought by GM, who kept the name under copyright for 40 years. In 2004, GM attempted to revive the company by building a new model of "Hurricane", which used the GM W platform. The car didn't sell particularly well in 2004 or 2005 and was discontinued in 2006. At the end of 2006, GM finally declared Valiant as being defunct.
**Cars to come soon**
