Pilgrim Cars

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Pilgrim Cars
legal form
founding 1985
Seat Small Dole at Henfield
management The Tanner
Branch Automobile manufacturer
Website www.pilgrimcars.com

Pilgrim Bulldog
Pilgrim sumo
Pilgrim Speedster
Pilgrim Minotaur

Pilgrim Cars is a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Den Tanner and Bill Harling founded the company in Small Dole near Henfield in 1985 and started manufacturing automobiles. The brand name is Pilgrim , based on a song. The vehicles are available as kit cars or fully assembled. 2,002 took Tony Holmes, the company Pilgrim Cars (UK) Ltd . In 2008 the company went bankrupt, after which it bought Den Tanner back.

Models

Pilgrim Bulldog (1985-1997)

The first model was the Bulldog , a 1940s-style 2 + 2 touring car that was developed by Den Tanner between 1980 and 1985. The body made of GRP was built in 1984. The basis was a chassis developed in-house , the manufacturer calls it a ladder frame, and a four-cylinder engine from the Morris Marina acted as the drive ; from 1987 the engine and chassis came from the Ford Cortina / Ford Taunus. The chassis of the Bulldog Mk4 was a welded construction made of square tubes with four longitudinal spars and upward-pointing brackets for the attachment points of the seat belts. More than 2200 copies of the Bulldog were made.

Pilgrim Hawthorn (1986-1987)

In 1986 the Hawthorn appeared , a roadster in the style of the 1960s, of which 105 were built.

Pilgrim Sumo (1987-)

The Sumo is so far over 3500 cars built the most successful model of Pilgrim. It is a replica of the AC Cobra ; the new price for a basic kit was initially 2000 pounds . Initially, parts from the Ford Sierra were used. A steel frame and V6 engine followed, and in 1993 a Jaguar V8 engine . The frames of the later examples were stiffened with floor plates and received box-shaped cross members made of sheet metal, the manufacturer called this semi- monocoque .

Pilgrim Family Tourer (1989-2000)

In 1989 the Family Tourer (FT) added to the range. It was longer than the Bulldog and offered four full seats. A V6 engine with a displacement of 2300 cc was also available for this model . Pilgrim made 250 of this model.

Pilgrim Speedster (2002-)

A replica of the Porsche 356 Cabrio is the Pilgrim 356 on the floor pan of the VW Beetle . In addition to a true-to-original replica with a wheelbase shortened by 250 mm , a longer, four-seater variant is available on the unchanged floor pan. The Speedster was developed by the Pilgrim dealer Lambrechts in Belgium and included in the sales catalog. So far, over 310 copies have been made.

Small series

1989, a replica of was Lancia Stratos with mid-engine of Ford Escort as Pilgrim MX 2 presented. The Pilgrim Martini (1992-1994) built in five copies based on a Ford Capri was similar to the Aston Martin V8 Volante . The most exotic project to date was the Minotaur (2006–2009), originally designed by John Forakis and built in 8 copies. The shape of this kit car is based on super sports cars such as the Ferrari Enzo Ferrari or McLaren P1 .

literature

  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
  • Steve Hole: AZ of Kit Cars. Haynes Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-1-84425-677-8 . (English)
  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .

Web links

Commons : Pilgrim  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Steve Hole: AZ of Kit Cars. Pp. 196-197.
  4. ↑ pilgrimcars.com The Tanner
  5. ↑ guytoelen.be ( Memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ pilgrimcars.co: About Us