Muscle City

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Muscle City
legal form
founding 1977
resolution 1980
Seat Birmingham
management Terry Sands
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Muscle City was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Terry Sands founded the company in Birmingham in 1977 and began manufacturing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Muscle City . Production ended in 1980. Another source gives 1981 as the only year of production. In total, more than 100 copies were made. Sands founded Sandwood Automotive in 1983 and started manufacturing vehicles again.

vehicles

The Mongoose was manufactured between 1977 and 1980. It was inspired by a Ford Model T racing car from around 1927. The basis was a Ford Cortina . An open two-seater body was mounted on it. Muscle City produced around 100 of the 170 or so Mongoose.

About 82 examples of the Cobra were made between 1978 and 1979 . It was a replica of the AC Cobra , and one of the first to be British made. The basis was a self-developed chassis. An open two-seater body, similar to that of Steve Arntz, was mounted on it. A four-cylinder engine from the MGB powered the vehicle.

literature

  • 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. 175 and 179 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 175 and 179 (English).
  2. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed on January 6, 2015)