Lightning Sportscars

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Lightning Sportscars
legal form
founding 1984
resolution 1985
Seat Stafford , Staffordshire
management Kim Terry Short
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Lightning Sportscars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1984 Tim Kerry Short founded the company in Stafford in the county of Staffordshire . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Lightning . Production ended in 1985. A total of about four copies were made.

vehicles

The only model was the TS , short for Targa Sport . The basis was a simple chassis . A body resembling a Chevrolet Corvette was mounted on it. Four-cylinder engines from the Ford Cortina powered the vehicles. In 1985, the price was for a kit 1,575 pounds plus VAT . One source gives the reasons for the low market success that the replica was unsuccessful, the quality was poor, the chassis and engine were too simple, and there were also delays in production.

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. 900. (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. 146 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b 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. 900. (English)
  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. 146 (English).