Candy Apple Cars

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Candy Apple Cars
legal form
founding 1991
resolution 2001
Seat Danbury , Essex
management Peter Ashdown
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Candy Apple Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The former racing driver Peter Ashdown in 1991 founded the company in Danbury in the county of Essex . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Candy Apple . There was a collaboration with Eurosport (UK) . Production ended in 2001. A total of about 40 copies were made. Another source gives the production period 1994 to 2009.

vehicles

The first model was the final . This was a coupe based on the Pontiac Fiero . The designer was Tony Claydon. About 32 copies were made between 1991 and 2000.

The similarly designed Fino found eight buyers between 1999 and 2001.

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. 245. (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. 49 (English).

Web links

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. 245. (English)
  2. a b c d e 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. 49 (English).
  3. Allcarindex (English, accessed on May 1, 2015)