Prestige Sports Cars

Prestige Sports Cars
legal form
founding	1994
resolution	1995
Seat	Ringwood , Hampshire
management	Alan Milford
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Prestige Sports Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Alan Milford, who already had experiences with kit cars of Silhouette Cars and Car Build Services had collected, founded in 1994, the company in Ringwood in the county of Hampshire . He began producing automobiles and kits with the support of Nick Homewood . The brand name was Prestige . Production ended in 1995. A total of about five copies were made.

Kit Performance Vehicles from Durham under the direction of Steven Potter acquired the designs and tried to offer vehicles in 1999, but only produced a prototype .

vehicles

The offer included replicas of the Lamborghini Countach , as previously produced by Auto Build Services. The Denaro was a coupe version and found two buyers. About three copies of the open variant Monaco were made. The basis was a spaceframe. The front suspension came from the Ford Granada and the steering from Ford . Various four-cylinder engines , V6 engines and V8 engines were available.

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. 1266. (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. 18 and 71 (English).

Web links

• Allcarindex (accessed May 1, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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. 1266. (English)
2. ↑ 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. 18 and 71 (English).