MC (car brand)

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MC was a British car brand.

Brand history

Mark Clarkson, his wife Joy Clarkson and Phil Booth founded in 1984, the company MC Cars in Sheffield in the county of South Yorkshire . They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was MC . Carlton Automotive from Barnsley in South Yorkshire continued production from 1989 to 1995. The last manufacturer was Ian Birks Car Care from Sheffield in 1995 . A total of eight copies were made.

vehicles

The only model was the Acer . It was similar to Turner Sports from Turner Sports Cars from the 1960s. The base formed a chassis made of steel . A fiberglass body was mounted on top. The open cars offered either space for two or 2 + 2 people. Various four-cylinder engines from Ford Escort , Vauxhall Viva , Hillman Avenger , Datsun 120 Y , Morris Marina , Triumph Spitfire and Triumph Dolomite powered the vehicles.

literature

  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 987. (English)
  • Steve Hole: AZ of Kit Cars. The definitive encyclopaedia of the UK's kit-car industry since 1949 . Haynes Publishing, Sparkford 2012, ISBN 978-1-84425-677-8 , pp. 164 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 987. (English)
  2. ↑ Steve Hole: AZ of Kit Cars. The definitive encyclopaedia of the UK's kit-car industry since 1949 . Haynes Publishing, Sparkford 2012, ISBN 978-1-84425-677-8 , pp. 164 (English).