Midtec Sports Cars

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Midtec Sports Cars
legal form
founding 1989
resolution 1997
Seat Leicester , Leicestershire
management Terry Mulloy
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Midtec Sports Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1989 Terry Mulloy founded the company in Leicester in the county of Leicestershire . He took over a project from Kitdeal and started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Midtec . Production ended in 1997. Stuart Taylor Motorsport and later Midway Sportscars continued production under their own brand names.

vehicles

The first and best-selling model was the Spyder , designed by Lee Noble at Kitdeal. This was an open two-seater. The engine was mounted lengthways behind the seats. Various engines from Ford and Renault powered the vehicles. A total of about 32 copies were made of this model.

The calico was an own development. This was also a two-seater roadster . Many parts, including the engine, came from the Ford Sierra . Headlights and taillights came from the Vauxhall Corsa . This model found around four buyers between 1994 and 1996.

In addition, Midtec manufactured the Midas Bronze between 1992 and 1997 , which Midas Cars previously manufactured.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Midtec.
  • 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. 1035. (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. 169 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Midtec.
  2. ↑ 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. 1035. (English)
  3. ^ A b 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. 169 (English).