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1959 Devin SuperSport SS = Rare coming soon $obo For Sale

LhD

Located in the USA... dry desert.


Note: The photos in the ad are samples...


1959 Devin SS = Rare

- just arrived
- Coming soon and on request please.

Vehicle Type:
Sports Cars

Drive:
RWD

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Specs and History


- Devin Enterprises is an American automotive manufacturer that operated from 1955 to 1964. Devin was mainly known for producing high quality fiberglass car bodies that were sold as kits, but they also produced automotive accessories as well as complete automobiles. The company was founded by Bill Devin.

In their earliest advertising copy Devin Enterprises only included a mailing address of P. O. Box 357, Fontana, California.

- Later on they used a street address of 44500 Sierra Highway, Lancaster, California and later still 10156 Rush, South El Monte, California before moving operations to their most well-known location at 9800 E. Rush Street, El Monte, California.

The assets and intellectual property of Devin Enterprises were acquired by Devin Sports Cars LLC of Glendale California U. S. A.[1]


Devin SuperSport = SS


Devin SS (1958)
In 1957 Devin was contacted by two textile engineers from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Noel Hillis owned a hemstitching company called Devonshire Engineering, and Malcolm MacGregor worked for Hillis.

- Both men were racing enthusiasts who decided to build their own car. Hillis provided the workshop space while MacGregor designed the chassis. They wrote to Devin to ask about arranging for a custom body for their car.

- Bill Devin was interested enough in the project that he flew to Ireland to look at the car. Instead of selling them a body, Devin negotiated a deal with the two Irish engineers for MacGregor's chassis to be used for a new Devin car.

Devin asked for some changes for the final car. For the main chassis members, 76 mm (3 in) round cross-section tubing replaced the 102 mm (4 in) diameter tubing in the prototype.

- The 2, 337 mm (92 in) production wheelbase was a compromise between the 2, 286 mm (90 in) of the prototype and the 2, 388 mm (94 in) that Devin had originally asked for. The battery and generator were relocated to the rear of the car, with the generator being driven off a pulley at the differential.

The ladder-type chassis used 51 mm (2 in) tubing for the front and rear sub-structures. Front suspension was by equal-length upper and lower A-arms. The early tubular steel arms would give way to forged aluminum in later cars. At the rear were two trailing links per side and a de Dion axle with a 3. 73:1 ratio Salisbury differential that would receive a finned aluminum cover made by Devin.

- A Woodhead-Monroe coil-over-shock-absorber at each wheel handled springing and damping. Brakes were by Girling, with 305 mm (12 in) disks at the front and 279 mm (11 in) disks mounted inboard at the rear. Dunlop tires were mounted on Dunlop knock-off wire wheels.

- Steering was by a BMC rack-and-pinion unit with 2. 5 turns lock-to-lock.[24] The interior had two bucket seats and was trimmed in carpet. The dash, designed for either left- or right-hand drive builds, had Stewart-Warner gauges, including a 200 mile-per-hour speedometer and a 10, 000 RPM tachometer.

Devin designed a new body specifically for the car. The front-mounted radiator was angled forward, and the car did not come with a radiator fan, which combined to permit an extremely low nose.

- While early bodies had a rounded rear, later versions had a raised and flattened rear with room for a license plate. Later cars also had enlarged headlamp buckets.

- The Jaguar DOHC inline six-cylinder engine in the prototype would be replaced by a 4, 638 cc (283 cu in) Chevrolet OHV small-block V8. In the SS this engine used a low-rise intake manifold made by Devin and a Spaulding "Flamethrower" ignition and developed 164 kW (220 bhp) of power, which went to the rear wheels through a BorgWarner T-10 4-speed manual transmission.

- This resulted in a 988 kg (2, 179 lb) car with a 0–100 km/ h time of 4. 8 seconds and a top speed of 225 km/ h (140 mph).

- The new car would be called the Devin Super Sport, or SS. The rolling chassis would be built in Ireland and then be shipped to El Monte where the body and power-train would be fitted and the interior would be trimmed. Released in 1959, the SS was initially priced at US$5950. 00.

Art Evans would partner with his father and Ocee Ritch to make Evans Industries the sole distributor for the SS.

Due to a variety of issues with the Irish chassis Devin designed a replacement that would be made in California and would be called the American chassis. The price for the cars made with the American chassis rose to US$10, 000. 00 in the last year of production.

Evans Industries would end their distributor relationship with Devin in a press release dated March 9, 1960.[25]



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Can be exported at your cost or about $1, 500 dollars to the UK port in 4 weeks... bn


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