Acorn

Acorn was a small New Zealand car building enterprise created by Peter Parkinson, who was born in Dunedin (some accounts describe him as UK-born and raised in Dunedin) and studied maths and physics at Otago University before becoming a primary school teacher. He began building cars in 1970, working alone and largely without a garage, and every car he produced carried the name of a Peanuts comic strip character, while…