Pike Automotive

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Pike Automotive Limited
legal form Limited
founding 1986
resolution 1988
Seat Melton Mowbray , Leicestershire
management Arnold Pearce, Tony Brown
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Pike Automotive Limited was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Arnold Pearce and Tony Brown founded the company in 1986 in Melton Mowbray in the county of Leicestershire . They took over a project from PYK in Lutterworth . This started the production of automobiles and kits . The brand name was Pike . Production ended in 1988. A total of about 16 copies were made.

vehicles

On offer were vehicles that resembled the Merlin models . They were roadsters . Many parts came from the Ford Cortina and Ford Sierra , including the engines. The version with a six-cylinder engine with a displacement of 2800 cm³ was initially called the Invader . Since the model name Invader was already being used by Gilbern , the Gilbern Owners' Club complained , whereupon Pike used the model name Predator . This was also the name of the version with a four-cylinder engine .

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. 1231. (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. 196 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 1231. (English)
  2. ↑ 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. 196 (English).