-[edited] Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:45:30 -0400 From: Tom Vigor (off list) Subject: Caitlins Car
Say Bruce, What kind of car is it that Caitlin Cross drives on Nash Bridges ???? [We] looked everywhere for it and could not get any info.... Thanks - Tom, the car that the character Caitlin Cross (played by Yasmine Bleeth) drove http://www.nashbridges.com/faq/page7.html in Nash Bridges' http://nashbridges.com re-runs was an Electric Vehicle (EV). Originally it was called the Tropica by Renaissance Motors http://pages.prodigy.net/noela/photo.htm founded by Bob Beaumont (See Scott C. Kennedy's Tropica http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/105.html ) Renaissance Motors went into receivership and was bought out by a group of it's shareholders who are tried to manufacture the car under the name Zebra Motors http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=Zebra+Motors&hc=0&hs=1 Until the company was sold and renamed to Xebra Motors http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=Xebra+Motors&hc=0&hs=0 to a group of investors including Nash Bridges' Don Johnson http://bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/1999/07/19/story5.html which is how an Electric Car finally made it to TV. The Xebra that Yasmine drove was maintaned by Clare Bell http://geocities.com/evet_tech/ who worked at the time for GreenMotor Works out of Calstart's Hangar 20 located at the old Alameda NAS http://www.nashbridges.com/nbnews299.html The Nash Bridges TV show faired much better and longer than Xebra Motors http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=Zebra+Motors&hc=0&hs=1 Xebra investors never spent the money to kept its EV design up to date and no money was spent to put the EV into production for the public to buy. The Xebra web site looked like someone threw it up after a few drinks (quick and dirty). Once and a while a Xebra was towed out to show it off and gain investor PR, but not much more. The TV show ended, Xebra faded away, and the web site domain was dropped http://zebramotors.com EV people felt a great loss of this sexy body design. With its sweet lines, it is a classic sought after. The most recent one sold was right here in the SF Bay area from one of the investors who took a bath and only got one of the vehicles as a cash out. He waited too long and recently sold it for a only a few thousand. The new owner is enjoying restoring it http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EVList/message/29546 working to get it back on the road. ===== ' ____ ~/__|o\__ '@----- @'---(= . http://geocities.com/brucedp . EV List Editor & RE newswires . (originator of the above EV ascci art) ===== __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com
