Rico Cars

Rico Cars
legal form
founding	1996
resolution	2000
Seat	Brighton , East Sussex
management	Mike Richards
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Rico Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1996 Mike Richards founded the company in Brighton in the county of East Sussex . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Rico . Production ended in 2000. A total of at least eleven copies were made. The connection to Ayrspeed-Manx and their model is unclear.

vehicles

One model was a delivery truck . The chassis of the Citroën 2 CV formed the basis. A fiberglass body was mounted on top. About eleven copies were made of this model.

The range also included a replica of the Citroën Méhari .

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. 1333. (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. 213 (English).

Web links

Allcarindex (accessed May 1, 2015)

Individual evidence

↑ ^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. 1333. (English)
^ ^A ^b 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. 213 (English).

[Beaulieu-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. 1333. (English)

[Kit_Cars-2] A ^b 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. 213 (English).