Car craft engineering

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Car craft engineering
legal form
founding 1991
resolution 2000
Seat Lytham , Lancashire
management Terry Whiteman, Leigh Whiteman
Branch Automobiles

CC Cyclone
Rear view

Car Craft Engineering was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Terry Whiteman and his son Leigh founded in 1991, the company in Lytham in the county of Lancashire . They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was CC . Production ended in 2000. A total of over 30 copies were made.

vehicles

The first model was the Zero . The base was a tubular steel frame . The open body consisted mostly of aluminum panels, only the front and the fenders made of fiberglass . Many parts, including the two-cylinder engine , came from the Fiat 126 . Zero Engineering continued production from 1995 to 2004. A total of about 21 copies were made.

The Cyclone followed in 1994 . This was a roadster with a resemblance to the Lotus Seven . A mid-engine from Vauxhall Motors , usually a four-cylinder engine with 2000 cc displacement and turbocharger , propelled the vehicle. Lawrence Garside Engineering took over the project in 2000, but stopped production in the same year. This model found around 32 buyers.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Car Craft; CC.
  • 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. 254. (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. 50 (English).

Web links

Commons : Car Craft Engineering  - 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 Car Craft; CC.
  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. 254. (English)
  3. ↑ a b c 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. 50 (English).