Legendary sports cars

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Legendary sports cars
legal form
founding 1994
resolution 2001
Seat Manchester , Greater Manchester
management John Andrew
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Legendary Sportscars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The brothers Phil and Tim Marsh founded the company in 1994 in Ashbourne in County Derbyshire . They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was Legendary . In 1998 John Andrew took over the company and relocated to Manchester . The brand name remained unchanged. One source also gives the name Spring Vale Motor Services . Production ended in 2001. A total of about five copies were made.

vehicles

The only model was the 427 . This was the replica of the AC Cobra . The base was a chassis made of steel tubes. A V8 engine from Ford with a capacity of 5000 cc propelled the vehicle.

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. 887. (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. 144 (English).

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Individual evidence

  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. 887. (English)
  2. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed on May 1, 2015)
  3. ↑ 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. 144 (English).