AQC Jetway 707 - Stretch Toronado
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AQC Jetway 707 - Stretch Toronado
There's a greater chance of witnessing Batboy riding a Chinese satellite across the sky than ever seeing an AQC Jetway 707 on the road.
Last edited by Jetway; Aug 25, 2013 at 07:54 PM.
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This very likely is the last one running. I don't care for the car hauler. I think it just looks like a Toronado that somebody just whacked the back half off of and added a truck frame. They really made little or no effort to do anything with the back to give it any style.
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I've heard 52 built, and I've heard other sources say closer to 150. However many there were, you sure don't see them.
Coachbuilt.com says this about them:
The Jetway was a continuation of Cotner-Bevington, who always built on Oldsmobile chassis. After C-B was absorbed by Wayne-DIVCO, when Mssrs. Cotner and Bevington proposed a Toronado-based professional car, W-D said no way, since they were building C-B's as a "budget" professional car line and didn't want the Toronado-based car to upstage their Cadillac-based Miller Meteor professional line.
So, Cotner & Bevington, both then nearing 70, formed American Quality Coach and built their Toronado professional car anyway. Interesting that they couldn't even use their own names on the new car, as W-D held rights to the Cotner-Bevington name.
I've mentioned the CO penchant for the Jetway 707 over on AACA, and no one there has one- if they do, they haven't said anything.
Coachbuilt.com says this about them:
The Jetway was a continuation of Cotner-Bevington, who always built on Oldsmobile chassis. After C-B was absorbed by Wayne-DIVCO, when Mssrs. Cotner and Bevington proposed a Toronado-based professional car, W-D said no way, since they were building C-B's as a "budget" professional car line and didn't want the Toronado-based car to upstage their Cadillac-based Miller Meteor professional line.
So, Cotner & Bevington, both then nearing 70, formed American Quality Coach and built their Toronado professional car anyway. Interesting that they couldn't even use their own names on the new car, as W-D held rights to the Cotner-Bevington name.
I've mentioned the CO penchant for the Jetway 707 over on AACA, and no one there has one- if they do, they haven't said anything.
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