Great British Sports Cars

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Great British Sports Cars Limited
legal form Limited
founding 2006
Seat Lincoln , Lincolnshire
management Richard Thomas Hall
Branch Automobile manufacturer
Website www.greatbritishsportscars.co.uk

GBS Zero
GBS The Bullet

Great British Sports Cars Limited is a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was in on 5 May 2006 Lincoln in the county of Lincolnshire founded. Ian Kenneth Rowley and Joanne Rowley were the directors effective September 19, 2006. They took over some models from Robin Hood Engineering and started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name is GBS . The director's tenure ended on February 10, 2010 for Joanne Rowley and on February 25, 2010 for Ian Kenneth Rowley. Richard Thomas Hall has been a director since February 26, 2010. Keith Bird also served as a director from March 16, 2010 to February 10, 2015.

A total of over 500 copies have been made so far.

vehicles

The Zero appeared as the first model. It is a Lotus Seven- style vehicle . The open body offers space for two people side by side. Different engines, including a four-cylinder engine from Ford , drive the vehicles. This model has so far found around 500 buyers.

The spec is designed similarly and was released in the same year. It has an engine from the Ford Sierra .

The Project 2 B Plus has a tubular frame as the chassis and was available from 2007 to 2009.

In 2008 there was briefly The Bullet , a tricycle with a rear single wheel.

The Chubster has been available as a variant of the Zero since October 2010 . It's a bit wider and flatter. Around 35 vehicles of this model have been built so far.

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. 57, 214-217 and 281 (English).

Web links

Commons : Great British Sports Cars  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 57, 214-217 and 281 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d e companycheck.co.uk  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English, accessed September 1, 2015)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / companycheck.co.uk  
  3. ↑ opencorporates.com (accessed September 1, 2015)