Bob Beaumont
Career. Beaumont was the owner of a Chrysler dealership in upstate New York.In the early 70's he moved to Sebring, Florida where he founded Vanguard Vehicles, later named Sebring Vanguard where the CitiCar was produced. Nearly 2,300 Citicars were built and sold, many of which are still in use today. Sebring-Vanguard closed in 1977 with most of the assets sold to Frank Flower who formed a new company called Commuter Vehicles, Inc. to continue production of his re engineered Commuter-Car version from 1979 to 1982. After the closing of Sebring-Vanguard, Beaumont moved to  the Washington D.C area in order to lobby and promote electric vehicles. Later he established a used automobile dealership outside Columbia, Maryland. In the early 1990s with the California emissions regulations looming, Beaumont formed Renaissance Cars, Inc. and created the all-electric Tropica. Death. Beaumont died October 24, 2011, at his home in Columbia, Maryland.