EG Autocraft

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PKA Marketing (1987)
EG Autocraft (1987–1989)
legal form
founding 1987
resolution 1989
Seat Ponthenri at Llanelli , Carmarthenshire
management Emilio Garcia, Brian Angliss
Branch Automobiles

EG Arrow

EG Autocraft , previously PKA Marketing , was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Spaniard Emilio Garcia and Brian Angliss founded PKA Marketing in 1987 in Ponthenri near Llanelli in the county of Carmarthenshire in Wales . They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name for the prototype was PKA . In the same year the name was changed to EG Autocraft . The brand name was then EG . Production ended in 1989. Arrow Spyder from Llanelli, under the direction of Norman Bond, continued production while maintaining the brand name until 1991. A total of about 80 copies were made.

Hillcrest Classics from Brynmaer then continued production, but marketed the vehicles as Hillcrest.

vehicles

The models were called Arrow . A special chassis formed the basis of the vehicles . A body made of fiberglass , manufactured by Peter Jacobs, was mounted on it. Alternatively, the body was made of a mixture of fiberglass and Kevlar , steel or aluminum . A V12 engine from the Jaguar XJ 12 powered the vehicle. At first there was only one roadster called Spyder in the range. In 1987 a coupé was added. Both were replicas of the Ferrari GTB / 4 "Daytona" . A kit cost £ 20,000 and a complete vehicle cost £ 25,000. A total of 73 coupés and 7 Spyders were built .

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. 485. (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. 83 (English).

Web links

Commons : EG Autocraft  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b 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. 485. (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i 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. 83 (English).