O&C Products

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O&C Products
legal form
founding 1984
resolution 1989
Seat Peterborough , Cambridgeshire
management Ruth Oldham, Martin Crowther
Branch Automobile manufacturer

O&C Products was a British manufacturer of automobiles . O&C stood for the owners Oldham and Crowther.

Company history

Ruth Oldham and Martin Crowther founded in 1984, the company in Peterborough in the county of Cambridgeshire . They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was O&C . Production ended in 1989. A total of about 143 copies were made.

vehicles

The first model was the sport . This was the replica of the Lotus Seven . There was a choice of four-cylinder engines from the Morris Minor , Morris Marina , Toyota Corolla and Toyota Carina . Around 17 vehicles were built between 1984 and 1988.

The Sprint was the best-selling model. It found around 110 buyers between 1984 and 1988. It had the same basis as the sport . The open body looked like a mixture of a Lotus Seven and a traditional roadster .

The Super Sport was the sports derived. The front in particular was revised. A V8 engine from Rover drove the vehicle. About eight copies were made between 1985 and 1988.

The Sonnet was a variant of the sport with a more aggressive exterior. It found around five buyers between 1985 and 1988.

The Thruxton appeared in 1985 and remained on sale until 1988. It was an open racing car with street approval, only one of which was made.

The Serac from 1988 remained a one-off.

The last model was the Serac SS from 1989. This coupé with a Toyota engine also remained a prototype .

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. 1134. (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. 187 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d 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. 1134. (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g 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. 187 (English).