Founded in 1991 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana by Matt Chambers, Confederate Motor Company set out to create machines utilizing a holistic, avant-garde process for celebrating the art of rebellion. Motorcycles have long represented rugged individualism; the Confederate machines evoke principled individuality through simple, pure, minimal, skeletal form language, which is at once, technical and primitive.
Always energized more by passion and romance than solid capitalization, the autumn of 2005 found our team on the verge of acute dream fulfillment, with the Hellcat approaching full production and the Wraith only months from finalization.
No one could have anticipated what happened next...
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