AK Sportscars

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AK Sportscars Limited
legal form Limited
founding 1992
Seat Peterborough , Cambridgeshire
management Jon Freeman
Branch Automobile manufacturer
Website www.aksportscars.co.uk

AK 427
Also available with a hard top
chassis

AK Sportscars Limited is a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Ken Freeman and Alan Frew founded in 1992, the company in Peterborough in the county of Cambridgeshire . They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was initially KF , a little later AK , which stood for the initials of their first names. Ken's wife Lynda and their sons Dan and Jon supported the two men. Jon Freeman took over the helm in 2009 when Ken and Lynda Freeman retired, and is assisted by his wife Wendi. Around 300 vehicles have been built so far.

vehicles

The Premier model appeared under the KF brand . This was the replica of the AC Cobra .

A little later it became the 427 under the AK brand . A ladder frame made of steel forms the basis. An open body made of fiberglass is mounted on it. Different V8 engines power the vehicles.

literature

  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 23. (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. 22 and 136 (English).

Web links

Commons : AK Sportscars  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 23. (English)
  2. ^ A b 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. 22 and 136 (English).