Dorset Motor Services

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Dorset Motor Services
legal form
founding 1980s
resolution 1993
Seat Fordingbridge , Hampshire
management Derek Finlay
Branch Automobiles

Dorset Motor Services was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Derek Finlay founded in the 1980s, the company in Fordingbridge in the county of Hampshire . He started producing automobiles and kits in 1989 . The brand name was DMS . Production ended in 1993. A total of about 141 copies were made. Classic Replicas took over the company. It is unclear whether the DMS models continued to be produced there.

vehicles

The Venom was a replica of an AC Cobra based on a Ford Cortina . Various engines from the four-cylinder engine to the V8 engine were available. About 100 copies were made of this.

The Predator was based on the 240 Z Datsun . It was similar to the Ferrari 250 GTO . About 20 copies were made.

Around 20 copies of the Bullit were also made . This vehicle was based on the Ford Capri . It was inspired by the Aston Martin Vantage . The body was made of fiberglass . There was a choice of a coupé or a convertible .

The Abingdon , presented in 1993, remained a one-off . This was a replica of an MG A .

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. 442. (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. 73 (English).

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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. 442. (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. 73 (English).