Mirage Replicas

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Mirage Replicas Limited
legal form Limited
founding 1988
resolution 2002
Seat Wellingborough , Northamptonshire
management Phil Cheetham
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Mirage Countach Replica

Mirage Replicas Limited was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Gary Thompson, who previously Venom Cars headed, and Phil Cheetham founded in 1988, the company in Wellingborough in the county of Northamptonshire . They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was Mirage . From 1991 Cheetham managed the company alone. Production ended in 2002.

DH Supercars , led by Dave Harrison and Clive Dingwall, continued production from 2004 to 2007 while retaining the brand name.

A total of about 70 copies were made.

vehicles

The only model was the Countach Replica , a replica of the Lamborghini Countach . A spaceframe chassis formed the basis. A fiberglass coupé body was mounted on top. Various engines from Ford Granada and Ford Scorpio , V6 engines from Renault , V8 engines from Chevrolet and Rover, and V12 engines from Jaguar Cars powered the vehicles.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Mirage (II).
  • 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. 1044. (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. 173 (English).

Web links

Commons : Mirage Replicas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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 Mirage (II).
  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. 1044. (English)
  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. 173 (English).