Eric Booth Motors

Eric Booth Motors
legal form
founding	1994
resolution	2000
Seat	Cape Town , South Africa
management	Eric Booth
Branch	Automobiles

Eric Booth Motors was a South African manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Eric Booth founded the company in Cape Town in 1994 . He started making racing cars . He also designed street sports cars that were manufactured from 1999. The brand name was EBM . According to a source, production ended in 2000. EBM Sportscars of Milton Keynes sold three copies in the UK between 1999 and 2000 .

vehicles

It was super sports car with mid-engine . Various V8 engines from BMW and Chevrolet powered the vehicles. After three prototypes , the Tazio appeared in 1999 . A chassis made of stainless steel formed the basis . A fiberglass body was mounted on top. There was a choice of roadster and coupé . The empty weight was around 1000 kg. The maximum speed was given as 331 km / h.

Another source also names the Manx model .

literature

Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter EBM (II).
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. 480. (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

d'Auto (Dutch, accessed June 26, 2016)
Allcarindex (accessed June 26, 2016)

Individual evidence

↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter EBM (II).
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d George Nick Georgano (editor-in-chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 480. (English)
↑ ^a ^b Allcarindex (English, accessed on June 26, 2016)
↑ 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).

[Die_Internationale_Automobil-Enzyklopädie-1] Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter EBM (II).

[Beaulieu-2] A ^b ^c ^d George Nick Georgano (editor-in-chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 480. (English)

[Allcarindex-3] Allcarindex (English, accessed on June 26, 2016)

[Kit_Cars-4] 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).