Deon Cars

JH Classics (1987–1991) ; Deon Limited (1991–1993) ; Deon Cars (1995–1998)
legal form
founding	1987
resolution	1998
Seat	Ilminster , Somerset
management	John Hurst
Branch	Automobiles

Deon Scoperto

Deon Cars , previously JH Classics and Deon Limited , was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

John Hurst founded in 1987 JH Classics in Clacton-on-Sea in the County of Essex as a successor company to Daytona Classics . The production of automobiles and kits began. The brand name was Deon , initially possibly DGT . There was a collaboration with Swindon Sportscars and Fiberglass Applications . In 1988 the company moved to Sutton Veny near Warminster in Dorset . 1991 company was renamed to Deon Limited and the move to Ilminster in the county Somerset . At the beginning of 1993 came the temporary end. Deon Cars continued production between 1995 and 1998 . A total of over 300 copies were made.

John Hurst founded a new company called JH Classics near Taunton in 2010 and has been marketing vehicles as JH since 2011 .

vehicles

The DGT was the most successful model with around 220 copies sold. It was a replica of a Dino 246 GT as a coupé and corresponded to the AD 206 model from Daytona Classics. A body made of fiberglass was mounted on a tubular frame . The suspension came from the Fiat 124 (front) and Lancia Beta (rear). For driving a saw four-cylinder engine of Lancia .

The GTS appeared in 1989 as a version of the DGT with a Targa roof .

The Scoperto was the roadster version of the DGT . It found 28 buyers between 1991 and 1997.

Two copies of a lightweight version of the DGT as a roadster called DGT Le Mans were built between 1991 and 1997.

The Mirabeau continued to resemble a dinosaur, but differed in some details. The execution as a roadster has been handed down. The well-known four-cylinder engine from Lancia and a V6 engine from Ford with a displacement of 2900 cm³ were available for the drive . 63 copies were made between 1991 and 1998.

literature

Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter DGT and Deon.
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. 422. (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. 71 (English).

Web links

Commons : Deon Cars - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Allcarindex (English)

Individual evidence

^ ^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 DGT and Deon.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h 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. 422. (English)
↑ ^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. 71 (English).
^ JH Classics (2011) (accessed March 1, 2015)

[Die_Internationale_Automobil-Enzyklopädie-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 DGT and Deon.

[Beaulieu-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h 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. 422. (English)

[Kit_Cars-3] ↑ ^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. 71 (English).

[4] JH Classics (2011) (accessed March 1, 2015)