GCS Cars

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GCS Cars
legal form
founding 1990
resolution 1999 or 2000
Seat Orpington , London Borough of Bromley
management Colin Puttock, Garry Hutton
Branch Automobile manufacturer

GCS Hawke

GCS Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Colin Puttock and Garry Hutton founded the company in Orpington in the London Borough of Bromley in 1990 . They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was GCS . Production ended in 1999 or 2000.

vehicles

Brand name GCS

The only model was the Hawke . It looked like a Morgan Motor Company model , but was wider. The vehicle was initially based on the Ford Cortina , later on the Ford Sierra . A lead frame made of steel a body made was fiberglass mounted. The bonnet consisted of either fiberglass or aluminum . In addition to a two-seater roadster , a version with 2 + 2 seats was also on offer. Initially, the four-cylinder engine from the Ford Cortina powered the vehicles. Later the installation of was the V8 engine from Rover possible.

After GCS Cars was dissolved, Tiger Racing continued production until 2003. The brand name has not been passed down. After that, LC Developments provided the vehicles until 2007 or 2008 and marketed them as LCD . A total of about 135 copies of the Hawke model were made .

Brand name Leighton

GCS manufactured this model between 1997 and 1999 and then passed the production on to BRA Motor Works . It was a tricycle with a rear single wheel. The two-cylinder engine came from the Citroën 2 CV .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter GCS
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 613. (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. 118 and 144 (English).

Web links

Commons : GCS Cars  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter GCS
  2. ^ A b George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 613. (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f 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. 118 and 144 (English).
  4. ↑ Allcarindex zu GCS (English, accessed on March 1, 2015)
  5. ↑ a b Allcarindex zu LCD (English, accessed on March 1, 2015)