Eldon car kits

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Eldon car kits
legal form
founding 1993
resolution 1999
Seat Tonbridge , Kent
management Phil Surridge
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Eldon Autokits was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1993 Phil Surridge founded the company in Tonbridge in the county of Kent . He took over the project from Racecorp and started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Eldon . Production ended in 1999. A total of about 57 copies were made.

Razer Sports Cars continued production under its own brand name from 2003.

vehicles

The only model was the roadster . The base was a spaceframe tubular frame. An open two-seater body was mounted on it, which was similar to the Lotus Seven . Various engines from Fiat and Ford as well as Wankel engines from Mazda powered the vehicles.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Racecorp.
  • 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 , p. 1288. (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. 84 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Racecorp.
  2. ↑ 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 , p. 1288. (English)
  3. ↑ 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. 84 (English).