ARA Racing

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ARA Racing Limited
legal form Limited
founding 2003
resolution 2009
Seat Hertford , Hertfordshire , United Kingdom
management Anthony Richard Anstead
Branch Automobile manufacturer

ARA Racing Limited was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Michael Anstead and Louise Ann Anstead founded on 4 November 2003, the company in Hertford in the county of Hertfordshire . They started producing automobiles and kits in 2004 . The brand name was ARA . Anthony Richard Anstead joined the company on November 4, 2004. Production ended in 2007 due to financial problems. On March 5, 2009 the company was dissolved. A total of at least twelve copies were made.

vehicles

The first model was the low cost . This was a Lotus Seven- style vehicle . Many parts, including the engine, came from Ford . Of these, around twelve vehicles were built between 2005 and 2006.

The Le Mans Rogue or Le Mans Roque was a replica of the Aston Martin DBR 1 or Aston Martin DBR 2 racing car . The engine came from Jaguar Cars . AS Motorsport continued production of the model from 2007.

The auction house Coys offered such a replica on March 29, 2008 at an auction during Techno-Classica in Essen , expected a price of 48,000 to 58,000 euros , but did not auction the vehicle.

The same auction house sold a replica of a DBR 2 for 48,300 euros on January 11, 2014 .

literature

  • 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. 27 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 27 (English).
  2. ↑ a b companycheck.co.uk (English, accessed September 1, 2015)
  3. ↑ opencorporates.com (accessed September 1, 2015)
  4. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed on September 1, 2015)
  5. ↑ Auction 2008 (accessed September 1, 2015)
  6. ↑ Thomas Wirth: Market and Opinion. In: Auto Bild Klassik , issue 3/2014, p. 96.