Broadbest

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Broadbest Limited
legal form Limited
founding 1987
resolution 1988
Seat Poole , Dorset
management Dave Andrews, Mark Ross
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Broadbest Limited was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Dave Andrews and Mark Ross founded the company in 1987 in Poole in the county of Dorset . They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was Broadbest . Production ended in 1988. Auto Build-up Services continued production under its own brand name.

vehicles

The company made replicas of the Lamborghini Countach . According to a source, the vehicles represented something like the successor to the Venom Cars model. The Centaur model was a complete vehicle , while the Primo was sold as a kit . The basis was a spaceframe chassis designed by GTD Supercars . V6 engines and V8 engines from Ford and Rover powered the vehicle. The gearbox came from the Renault 30 . Many parts were from Ford Sierra and Ford Scorpio .

About ten copies of the Primo were made.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Broadbest.
  • 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. 198. (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. 43 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Broadbest.
  2. ↑ 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. 198. (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. 43 (English).