Hillcrest Classics

Hillcrest Classics
legal form
founding	1980s
resolution	1980s
Seat	Pontypool , Wales
management	Emilio Garcia; Paul Attwell; Peter Jacobs;
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Hillcrest Classics was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Emilio Garcia, who also ran EG Autocraft , Paul Attwell and Peter Jacobs founded the company in Pontypool , Wales . They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was Hillcrest . Around eight copies were made by the time production was stopped. The construction period is given by a source as the 1980s.

vehicles

The V12 model corresponded to the EG Arrow . It was a replica of the Ferrari 365 GTB / 4 "Daytona" . A V12 engine from Jaguar Cars powered vehicles. About eight of these models were made. One source names the construction period 1987 to 1988, another 1980s.

The company also made replicas of the AC Cobra .

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. 691. (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. 121 (English).

Web links

Website about Ferrari Daytona replicas ( memento of November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English, accessed on March 1, 2015)
Allcarindex (accessed March 1, 2015)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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. 691. (English)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d 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. 121 (English).

[Beaulieu-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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. 691. (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. 121 (English).