Excalibur Cars

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Excalibur Cars
legal form
founding 1985
resolution 1996
Seat West Looe , Cornwall
management Clive Clark
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Excalibur Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Clive Clark founded the company in West Looe in the county of Cornwall . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Excalibur . Production ended in 1996. A total of about 32 copies were made.

vehicles

The only model was the Crusader . It resembled the bonito . The prototype was based on the chassis of the VW Beetle . The series models had a special steel frame. The body was made of fiberglass . Initially, there was only a coupé with 2 + 2 seats on offer. An open version followed in 1992. Four-cylinder engines from 1300 cc engine capacity and six-cylinder engines up to 2900 cc of Ford drove to the vehicles. From 1992 also had V8 engine from Rover available. The kit cost the equivalent of around 15,900 DM .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Excalibur (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. 513. (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. 90 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Excalibur (II).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f 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. 513. (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. 90 (English).