GB Motors

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GB Motors
legal form
founding 1969
resolution 1977
Seat Small Heath , Birmingham
management John Cullen
Branch Automobile manufacturer

GB Motors was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

John Cullen founded the company in Birmingham in 1969 and began manufacturing automobiles and kits . The brand names were GB and Invader . Production ended in 1977. In total, more than 50 copies were made.

vehicles

Brand name GB

The Buggy model was marketed under this brand name . This was a VW buggy that was similar to the GP buggy . About 50 copies were made between 1969 and 1974.

Brand name Invader

GB Motors produced vehicles under this brand name between 1970 and 1977 and then handed production over to Croy Glassfibre Products of Birmingham .

literature

  • 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. 102, 127 (English).
  • James Hale: Dune Buggy Handbook. The A – Z of VW-based buggies since 1964 . Veloce Publishing, Dorchester 2013, ISBN 978-1-84584-378-6 , pp. 100-101 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b 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. 102, 127 (English).
  2. James Hale: Dune Buggy Handbook. The A – Z of VW-based buggies since 1964 . Veloce Publishing, Dorchester 2013, ISBN 978-1-84584-378-6 , pp. 100-101 (English).