Amalfi Sports Cars

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Amalfi Sports Cars
legal form
founding 1994
resolution 2000
Seat Ammanford , Carmarthenshire , Wales
management Paul Sparrow
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Amalfi Sportscars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Paul Sparrow founded the company in 1994. Both Basingstoke in the county of Hampshire and Newport in Monmouthshire ( Wales ) are named as locations . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Amalfi . 1997 followed the move to Ammanford in Carmarthenshire . Production ended in 2000. A total of about two copies were made.

vehicles

The first model was the passero . It was similar to the Lamborghini Countach , but was 33 cm shorter and 13 cm narrower. A spaceframe formed the basis. Four-cylinder engines from the Fiat X 1/9 and Lancia Beta were available for the drive . A special feature were six front headlights, which were designed as folding headlights .

In 1997 the model name Passero was dropped . The revised frame was now designed for the wheel suspensions of the Ford Granada and Ford Scorpio . One of the buyers was Larry Webb.

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. 46. (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. 24 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 46. (English)
  2. ↑ 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. 24 (English).