Gaia Cars

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Gaia Cars
legal form
founding 1994
resolution 2002
Seat Parkstone , Dorset
management Jon Ridd
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Gaia Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1994 Guy Dormehl founded the company in Dibden Purlieu in the county of Hampshire . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Gaia . As of 1997, the company was based in Parkstone in Dorset . In 2001 Jon Ridd took over the company. Production ended in 2002. A total of about eleven copies were made. Other sources give the start of production as 1996 and the end of production as 1999.

vehicles

The only model was the Deltoid . This was a tricycle with a rear single wheel. The drive and rear wheel were from a motorcycle , usually Suzuki . A body made of fiberglass was mounted on a spaceframe .

literature

  • 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. 603. (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. 101 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 603. (English)
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 101 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Allcarindex (English, accessed on May 1, 2015)