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Koppin

Defunct American motor vehicle manufacturer

The Koppin was a cyclecar built in Fenton, Michigan, by the Koppin Motor Company in 1914.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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1914 Fenton Cyclecar advertisement in The American Cyclecar magazine
Photo: Fenton Cyclecar Company, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

The Koppin was a cyclecar built in Fenton, Michigan, by the Koppin Motor Company in 1914.2

The story

The Koppin was a two-seater cyclecar that used a two-cylinder air-cooled Spacke DeLuxe engine of 1.2L capacity. It came equipped with a friction transmission. The vehicle was priced at $385, equivalent to $12,375 in 2025. The Koppin Motor Company was the successor to the Fenton Cyclecar Company, the car also called the Signet in early advertising.

Oscar J. Howick, who had earlier worked for Lozier and Packard, was the designer of the Fenton. The company was organized by auto salesman George Jenks. When Jenks died on March 23, 1914, the company was reorganized by H.S. Koppin, who also owned the empty A.J. Phillips factory that production was moved to. The vehicle was renamed the Koppin Model A roadster. The Koppin factory was destroyed by fire in September 1914. Koppin carried on until the end of 1914 when the company was dissolved and he moved to Detroit.

From Wikipedia’s article on Koppin, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

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