PRB Motors

PRB

PRB Motors is an Australian automobile manufacturer. The company, founded by Peter Raymond Bladwell in 1978 , builds sport roadsters, mainly based on Colin Chapman's Lotus Seven . The headquarters were initially in Drummoyne and now in Greenacre , both near Sydney .

description

The first PRB was delivered to John Ribeiro , a racing driver from Canberra , who won the New South Wales Hill Climb Championship with it in 1978 . There are a few hundred PRB Clubman on Australian roads today . The cars are successful in motorsport competitions. In optimized cars, an acceleration of 4 s from 0-100 km / h can be achieved.

The current PRB Clubman has a monocoque chassis made of aluminum in a sandwich honeycomb construction . The car is only available as a kit car and must be assembled by the buyer or the local PRB dealer. The aluminum structure makes the car lighter and more stable.

The PRB S3 differs from many other Australian kit cars in that it mainly uses new parts, many of which are specially manufactured for the S3 model. The latest model can be equipped with engines from Ford Focus , Toyota Celica or - for racing purposes - with the 1.6 liter 4AGE engine from Toyota .

literature

• George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1264. (English)

Web links

Commons : PRB Motors  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Unofficial website of PRB Australia (accessed November 15, 2015)
• Allcarindex (accessed November 15, 2015)