S & R Sportscars

S & R Sportscars
legal form
founding	1985
resolution	1986
Seat	Wakefield , West Yorkshire
management	Roy Coates
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

S & R Sportscars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Roy Coates, who in 1982 by Embeesea kit cars the rights to the project Eurocco acquired, in 1985 founded the company in Wakefield in the county of West Yorkshire . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was SR . Production ended in 1986. A total of about three copies were made.

vehicles

The first model was the SR 1 . The basis was the uncut chassis from the VW Beetle . A coupé body was mounted on it.

A little later the SR 2 followed . Building on the same basis, the coupé offered space for 2 + 2 seats. The front headlights of both models came from the Audi Quattro .

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. 1489. (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. 238 (English).

Web links

• Allcarindex (accessed March 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. 1489. (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. 238 (English).