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- noun Plural form of
coachbuilder .
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Examples
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The chassis 'new owner would then have a unique body fitted to it by one of a handful of custom "coachbuilders," who were direct descendants of the firms that built carriages for 19th-century toffs.
'The Allure of the Automobile' at Atlanta's High Museum by Blake Gopnik 2010
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The 1954 Dodge Firearrow III, a luscious concept car that was meant to help sell Chrysler's truly mass-produced products, was in fact custom-built by the Italian coachbuilders at Carrozzeria Ghia.
'The Allure of the Automobile' at Atlanta's High Museum by Blake Gopnik 2010
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The 8AS that Christie's will auction features a body by Castagna, one of Italy's finest coachbuilders of the day.
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F & M started the vehicle by building a "dummy" body of bent, hand-modeled iron tubes, which it grafted onto an aluminum frame the way old coachbuilders did--with hammers.
Old-School Cool 2006
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Ever since the first introduction of coaches Long Acre has been particularly favoured by coachbuilders, and at the present time it is lined by carriage-works.
The Strand District The Fascination of London Walter Besant 1868
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Even the Quixotism of some of their attempts at colonisation cannot fail to interest us, as at Gallipolis on the Ohio, a colony composed of expatriated people of the French court; -- perruquiers, coachbuilders, tailors, _modistes_, and the like.
The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850
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The company specialised in performance parts for the VW engine and soon some of the VW based coachbuilders such as Dannenhauer & Stauss and Rometsch were using Okrasa engines in their sports cars.
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The company specialised in performance parts for the VW engine and soon some of the VW based coachbuilders such as Dannenhauer & Stauss and Rometsch were using Okrasa engines in their sports cars.
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These celebrated coachbuilders, which produce design studies and sometimes build small runs of vehicles under contract, have long been the gold standard of automotive aesthetics.
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Come and visit the south's premier equine coachbuilders.
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