Silhouette Cars

Silhouette Cars
legal form
founding	1987
resolution	1989
Seat	Corby , Northamptonshire
management	Sue Winter, Colin Winter
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Silhouette Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Sue Winter and Colin Winter, previously at Jaguar Cars has worked, founded the company in 1987 in Corby in the county of Northamptonshire . They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was Silhouette . Production ended in 1989. A total of about 23 copies were made.

It was not affiliated with Silhouette Cars Limited , which used the same brand name in the 1970s.

vehicles

The only model who was SC 5000 S . This was the replica of the Lamborghini Countach . A spaceframe with a steel frame formed the basis. A fiberglass coupé body was mounted on top. Various V6 , V8 and V12 engines powered the vehicles.

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. 1450. (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. 231 (English).

Web links

• Allcarindex (accessed March 1, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} 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. 1450. (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. 231 (English).