A society of Independents was formed in 1780 by Captain Jonathan Scott (1735–1807), who started preaching in a coachmaker's shop on Barker Street with the Reverend William Armitage from Chester.
The V8 Zagato, as the name suggests, was based on the Aston Martin V8, but with a body by the famed Zagato coachbuilder.
Barnato 's personal Speed Sixes had bespoke bodywork by various coachbuilders, and the Criminal Investigation Department of the Western Australia Police operated two saloon-bodied examples as patrol cars.
In 1985 and 1986, Hess & Eisenhardt/Car Craft of Lima, Ohio converted 124 finished Buick Century coupes into coachbuilt convertibles.
Boneschi has recently been acquired by the Milano-based Savio coachbuilder.
Carrozzeria Varesina (established 1845 in Varese) was an Italian coachbuilder, known for their work on industrial vehicles such as double-decker buses for both touring and urban transport.
The automotive coachbuilder firm Heuliez has its main production plant on the outskirts of the town.
was an American coachbuilder founded in 1925 by Raymond H. Dietrich ( 1894-1980), co-founder of LeBaron Incorporated in New York.
Car bodies were welded at ILCAS in Sparone Canavese, and final assembly was done in Chivasso by the coachbuilder Maggiora.
Freestone and Webb were English coachbuilders, most notably for Rolls-Royce and Bentley motor cars but also cars such as Alfa Romeo, Packard and Mercedes-Benz.
In 1964, more than 20 years after the end of production, the villainous Auric Goldfinger (played by Gert Fröbe) drove an excellently preserved black and yellow Phantom III (Chassis Number #3BU168 Sedanca de Ville by Coachbuilder Barker), knowing that its great strength would be able to hold the weight of the vast amounts of gold that he smuggled around Europe.
The pre-cars were produced at the brothers’ homebase in Courbevoie, on the northern edge of Paris, but 80% of the production was shipped to England where they received their bodies, mostly fitted by Berwick’s own coachbuilder located at Highgate on the north side of London.
A small coachbuilder in Laholm, Sweden, called Nilsson, worked under contract with Volvo to supply the stretched 960 Executive (and later Royal model, with Hermes leather interior).