Costin Drake Technology

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Costin Drake Technology
Costin Automotive Racing Products Ltd.
legal form
founding 1970
resolution 1972
Seat Little Staughton
management Frank Costin
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Costin Drake Technology and Costin Automotive Racing Products Ltd. was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Frank Costin , who previously worked for Marcos Cars , founded the company in Little Staughton in 1970 and began manufacturing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Costin . Production ended in 1972 when Paul Pycroft, the last financier, withdrew. The information on the number of pieces vary between seven, eight, about eight and nine.

vehicles

The only model was the amigo . This was a GT sports car. The two-seat coupe was strikingly flat. In connection with a comb rear (according to Wunibald Kamm ) the vehicle had a CW value of 0.29. The chassis was partly made of wood . A four-cylinder engine from Vauxhall Motors with a capacity of 2000 cc or 2300 cc propelled the vehicles. Another source indicates that all vehicles were delivered with a Vauxhall engine with 2000 cc capacity, one however later for racing a Twincam -Motor of Ford received and today with a 2279 cc Vauxhall engine with 160 PS has power .

With a wheelbase of 244.8 cm, the vehicle was 414 cm long, 167.7 cm wide and 106.7 cm high. The curb weight was 658 kg.

The high price of 3326 pounds , which roughly corresponded to the Jaguar E-Type V12, prevented greater market success.

One vehicle was used in a race at Le Mans in 1971 .

In 2011 the auction house Silverstone Auctions offered the vehicle with chassis no. 060 and the British registration APP 257 J from 1970 at an auction with an estimate of 70,000 to 90,000 pounds, but did not auction it.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Costin Amigo.
  • 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. 339. (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. 61 (English).
  • Richard Heseltine, Gerrit Reichel: Unknown friend. In: Auto Zeitung Classic Cars. Edition 10/2014. Heinrich Bauer Zeitschriften Verlag, Hamburg 2014, pp. 136–139.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 61 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Allcarindex (English, accessed December 12, 2014)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f 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. 339. (English)
  4. ^ 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 Costin Amigo.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Richard Heseltine, Gerrit Reichel: Unknown friend. In: Auto Zeitung Classic Cars. Edition 10/2014. Heinrich Bauer Zeitschriften Verlag, Hamburg 2014, pp. 136–139.
  6. ^ Auction (English, accessed December 18, 2014)