1964 Gordon-Keeble is a very rare classic - Chron.com
Pat Cashman, a retired newspaper publisher living in Vicksburg, Mississippi, saw an article in Auto Week magazine back in the early 1990s about a little known and little produced car called the Gordon-Keeble. Named after the two men who came up with the car's concept in the late 1950s, the Gordon-Keeble was first produced in 1964. Intrigued by the car, Cashman decided to further investigate this little known British automobile. The 64-year-old Cashman knew, however, the task of finding a Gordon-Keeble would be difficult, since only 99 were ever produced. uk, company founders John Gordon of Peerless Cars Ltd. and Jim Keeble, an engineer and race car driver, built the first Gordon-Keeble for USAF Pilot Rick Neilson, who wanted them to fit an American V-8 engine from a Corvette into a Peerless car to give it extra performance. " Gordon and Keeble designed and built the car from scratch in three months. Gordon later took the prototype to Chevrolet in Detroit and got an agreement from then Chevrolet president Ed Cole to supply 1,000 of the 327 cubic-inch Corvette engines and gearboxes per year. When the money ran out and the company was liquidated, only 91 Gordon-Keebles had been produced. The company was reopened briefly under new owners as Keeble Cars Ltd. Source: www.chron.com
