Hacker Motor Company

Hacker Motor Company Limited
legal form	Limited
founding	1991
resolution	2000
Seat	Littlehampton , West Sussex
management	Tim Dutton-Woolley
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Hacker Maroc

Hacker Motor Company Limited was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Tim Dutton-Woolley, who previously Dutton Cars headed, founded on February 9, 1991, the company in Littlehampton in the county of West Sussex . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Hacker . Production ended in 2000.

The Novus Group from Bolney in West Sussex from 2000 to 2002 and Minos Cars from Haywarth Heath in West Sussex under the direction of Jim Walmsley in 2002 continued production while retaining the brand name. A total of about 22 copies were made.

vehicles

The first model was the Maroc . Simon Saunders was the designer. The Ford Fiesta formed the technical basis . The open vehicle had a body made of fiberglass . At first it was only available as a complete vehicle, with prices starting at £ 13,000 . Between 1993 and 1999 there was also a kit in the range.

From 2000 the model was called Minos, possibly also Mirage.

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. 661. (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. 116 (English).

Web links

Commons : Hacker Motor Company - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Allcarindex (accessed May 1, 2015)

Individual evidence

↑ 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. 661. (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. 116 (English).

[Beaulieu-1] 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. 661. (English)

[Kit_Cars-2] 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. 116 (English).