EB Replicar

EB Replicar
legal form
founding	1980s
resolution	1980s
Seat	Vedbaek , Denmark
management	Erik Koux
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

EB Replicar was a Danish manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company from Vedbæk manufactured automobiles under the direction of Bugatti expert Erik Koux in the 1980s . The brand name was Replicar . In total, only a few copies were made. Other sources name a prototype and six production vehicles or five vehicles.

vehicles

The vehicles were replicas of the Bugatti T 57 S Atlantic . Only three copies of the original were made. Koux based himself specifically on the vehicle with the chassis number 57.591, which now belongs to Ralph Lauren . The coupé body offered space for two people. The body of the prototype was made of plastic . A six-cylinder engine from Jaguar or Alfa Romeo provided the drive .

Koux reproduced the chassis for the series vehicles. The engine, gearbox and axles came from standard Bugatti Type 57s that were cannibalized a long time ago.

A vehicle from this series has been owned by Volkswagen AG since 1999 .

literature

• 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 . (English)
• Gregor Schulz: Atlantic Pact. In: Oldtimer Market . Issue 4/2006. VF Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Mainz 2006, ISSN  0943-7320 , pp. 176-183.

Web links

Commons : EB Replicar  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Bugatti Club Germany e. V. ( Memento of September 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 5, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Gregor Schulz: Atlantic Pact.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Bugatti-Club Deutschland e. V. ( Memento of September 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 5, 2012)