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Santee

1960-1969

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Santee Automobiles was a sports car company in the San Diego area of California, founded in 1961 to build an American high-performance sports car on a level with the best from Europe. Its chief engineer was Fred Puhn, who was known for Quasar and Monocoque wheels, and a classmate from San Diego State University joined soon after the start-up as project engineer. A stock market crash in the fall of…

United States · 1960-1969 · Sportscar · Associated with Fred Puhn, John McCann

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