Le Mans Sports Car Company

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Le Mans Sports Cars (1980s – 1997)
Le Mans Sports Car Company (1997–2000)
legal form Company
founding 1980s
resolution 2000
Seat Westbury , Wiltshire , United KingdomUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom 
management David Yoxall
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Le Mans Sports Cars D-Type

Le Mans Sports Car Company , previously Le Mans Sports Cars , was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Le Mans Sports Cars was founded in Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire in the 1980s and began producing automobiles and kits for kit cars . The brand name was Le Mans . From 1990 they also sold kits from Stardust Sports Cars from Whitton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames under the direction of Vic Minay. In 1997 David Yoxall took over the company, renamed it Le Mans Sports Car Company and relocated to Westbury , Wiltshire . Another source gives the year 1993 for renaming and relocation. Production ended in 2000. A total of over 40 copies were made.

vehicles

One model was the Stardust D-Type , a replica of the Jaguar D-Type racing car . The chassis was a lattice frame . An open two-seater body was mounted on it. The rear axle came from the Ford Escort, which was built with rear-wheel drive until 1981 . The four-cylinder engine with 2000 cc displacement was the Ford OHC , also known as the "Pinto engine". Tiger Racing took over this project in 1999 or 2000, made a prototype called the Tiger D-Type , and passed it on to Lightning Motor Company in 2001 , which in turn gave it to Leighton Motor Company in 2006 . The brand names during the last two stations have not been passed down.

The Milano D-Type appeared in 1993 and was similar. However, the frame was changed and could accommodate engines from Jaguar Cars and Triumph . About 41 copies were made of both versions together.

The company also made replicas of Jaguar C-Type , Jaguar D-Type and Jaguar XK-SS , which were only offered as complete vehicles.

See also

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 , pp. 888-889. (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. 143 and 239 (English).

Web links

Commons : Le Mans Sports Car Company  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d 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 , pp. 888-889. (English)
  2. ↑ 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. 143 and 239 (English).