Handmade cars

Handmade cars
legal form
founding	1986
resolution	1989
Seat	Bushey , Hertfordshire
management	Stuart Gross
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Handmade Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1986 Stuart Gross founded the company in Bushey in the county of Hertfordshire . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Allora . Production ended in 1989. A total of 13 copies were made.

Litton Cars from Skipton continued production from 1989 under its own brand name.

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It was a replica of a Lancia Stratos . The basis was a chassis from the Lancia Beta , which, however, was changed to a semi- monocoque . The wheel suspensions were also changed significantly. Various engines from Alfa Romeo , Ferrari , Lancia , Renault , Rover and Vauxhall Motors were available.

One vehicle was presented at the Essen Motor Show in 1986 . Motorsport-Center Mohr then offered both kits and complete vehicles in Germany.

literature

Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Allora.
George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 338. (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. 24 (English).

Web links

Allcarindex (accessed March 1, 2015)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Allora.
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d ^e George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 338. (English)
^ ^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. 24 (English).

[Die_Internationale_Automobil-Enzyklopädie-1] Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Allora.

[Beaulieu-2] A ^b ^c ^d ^e George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 338. (English)

[Kit_Cars-3] 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. 24 (English).