Lakes Sports Cars

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Lakes Sports Cars
legal form
founding 1984
resolution 1985
Seat Lorton at Cockermouth , Cumbria
management Andrew McClellan
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Lakes Sports Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1984 Andrew McClellan founded the company in Lorton in Cockermouth in the county of Cumbria . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Voyager . Production ended the following year. A total of about six copies were made.

vehicles

The Model I was first presented at a kit car show in Stoneleigh in 1984 . The chassis of the VW Beetle formed the basis . An open two-seater roadster body made of fiberglass in the style of the 1930s was mounted on top. The four - cylinder boxer engine from the VW Beetle was mounted in the rear and drove the rear wheels. The vehicle remained a one-off. While contemporary magazines praised the exterior, the mechanics were criticized. The manufacturer then designed a revised model.

Sports appeared in the same year . It had a new chassis with a front engine. Many parts came from the Vauxhall Viva . The body has also been redesigned. Around five copies were made by 1985.

literature

  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1710. (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. 271 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1710. (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. 271 (English).