Classic car panels

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Classic car panels
legal form
founding 1992
resolution 2001
Seat Frome , Somerset
management Dicky Dawes
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Classic Car Panels was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1992 Dicky Dawes founded the company in Frome in the county of Somerset . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was initially Aleat . Production ended for the time being in the same year. Production resumed in 1994 or 1996. Now the brand name was Tripacer or Tri-Pacer . Production finally ended in 2001. A total of around 25 vehicles were built.

vehicles

Brand name Aleat

There was only one model under this brand name. The basis was a chassis from Kougar Cars . An open two-seater body made of aluminum was mounted on top. Jaguar Cars engines powered the vehicles. Kits cost £ 12,000 . Only two copies were made.

Brand name Tripacer

The Tripacer without a model name was based on a modified chassis of the Citroën 2 CV . It was a tricycle with a rear single wheel. The open body was made of aluminum. This model found around 18 buyers.

The Somerset model was similar, but four-wheeled and had a narrow gauge in the stern. About five of these were made.

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. 27. (English)
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1611. (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. 23, 234 and 257 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1611. (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g 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. 23, 234 and 257 (English).