Blackjack Cars

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Blackjack Cars
legal form
founding 1996
Seat Helston , Cornwall
management Richard Oakes
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Blackjack Avion
Side view
engine

Blackjack Cars is a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1996 Richard Oakes founded the company in Helston in the county of Cornwall . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name is Blackjack . A total of about 85 copies have been made so far.

vehicles

The first model was the Avion . This was a tricycle with a rear single wheel. A tubular steel frame formed the base. A two-cylinder engine from the Citroën 2 CV powered the vehicle. The open, doorless body offered space for two people. Around 70 copies were made by 2005.

The Zero has been on offer since 2005 . It has a similar structure, but has a more powerful engine. At first it was an air-cooled four - cylinder boxer engine from the VW Beetle and since 2008 a motorcycle engine from Moto Guzzi .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Blackjack.
  • 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. 168. (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. 40 (English).

Web links

Commons : Blackjack Cars  - Collection of pictures, 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 , chapter Blackjack.
  2. ↑ 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. 168. (English)
  3. ↑ 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. 40 (English).