Silhouette Cars Limited

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Silhouette Cars Limited
legal form Limited
founding 1970
resolution 1973
Seat Lewisham , London
management Peter Zagaroff
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Silhouette Cars Limited was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Peter Zagaroff founded the company in Lewisham in the London Borough of Lewisham in 1970 . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Silhouette . Production ended in 1973.

Adrian Wood of Adrian Wood Engineering from Lichfield in the county of Staffordshire began in 1978 the production continued and used the same brand name. A total of about 18 copies were made.

There was no connection to Silhouette Cars from Corby , which used the same brand name between 1987 and 1988.

vehicles

Sporty vehicles were on offer, mostly coupes . The chassis of the VW Beetle formed the basis . A fiberglass body was mounted on top. The version with normal doors was called GS 70 . The Zagaroff appeared in 1971, had double doors and sold five times.

A cabriolet has been handed down.

In 1978 the GS 70 was reissued. Terry Sands designed a new chassis for this.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter silhouette.
  • 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).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter silhouette.
  2. ↑ 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. 1450. (English)
  3. ↑ a b c 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).