AVA Cars

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AVA Cars
legal form
founding 1986
resolution 1991
Seat Bristol , UK
management John Burton
Branch Automobile manufacturer

AVA Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1986 Nick Topliss founded the company in Frome in the county of Somerset . He started producing automobiles and kits with the help of Ian Hunter . The brand name was AVA . Production initially ended in 1987 or 1988. Between 1990 and 1991 she continued John Burton in Bristol . A total of about 16 copies were made.

Josef Adlfinger from Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz offered the vehicles in Germany - according to a source, he also assembled them. One source also names Automotive Concepts / ACM from Neumarkt from 1987 to 1988, AMCA Automobilbau GmbH from Berlin from 1988 to 1990 and Interstyle Composite Products from Velburg from 1990 to 1994.

vehicles

The only model was the K 1 . This was a two-seater roadster . The basis was a stainless steel tube frame with a subframe and many parts of the third generation Ford Escort . The vehicle was front-wheel drive , while all-wheel drive was planned for a later date. The body was made of fiberglass . The drag coefficient was given as 0.295.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter AVA (III).
  • 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. 119. (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. 31 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter AVA (III).
  2. ^ A b 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. 119. (English)
  3. ^ 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. 31 (English).
  4. ↑ GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on March 1, 2015)
  5. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed March 1, 2015)