Robert Gerald Beaumont was the founder of Sebring-Vanguard a Florida based company that produced the Citicar, an electric automobile manufacturer from 1974 to 1977. He was born in Teaneck, New Jersey and attended Hartwick College after serving in the United States Air Force.[1](April 1, 1932 – October 24, 2011)
Career
Beaumont was the owner of a Chrysler dealership in upstate New York before moving to Detroit, Michigan, for a short time. He then moved to Sebring, Florida where the CitiCar was produced. Sebring-Vanguard went bankrupt in 1977. However, most of the assets of the company were sold to Frank Flower of Seawell, NJ who formed a new company called Comuter Vehicles, INC to continue production of his re engineered Comuter-Car version from 1979 to 1982. After the loss of Sebring-Vanguard, Beaumont then moved to the Washington D.C area in order to lobby and promote electric vehicles and had a used automobile dealership in Columbia, Maryland. He was also involved in a short lived endeavor in the 1990s for an electric sports car named the "Tropica"Death
Beaumont died October 24, 2011, at his home in Columbia, Maryland.[2]To see more of who died in 2011 click here
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