Siva Motor Car Company

Siva Motor Car Company
legal form	Company
founding	1970
resolution	1976
Seat	Aylesbury , UK
management	Neville Trickett, Robert Paterson
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Siva Motor Car Company was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Designer Neville Trickett and Robert Paterson founded the company in Aylesbury in 1970 and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Siva . Production ended in 1976. A total of around 185 copies were made.

In addition, Neville Trickett ran the Siva Engineering Sales Company in Weymouth with Michael Saunders , whose vehicles were also marketed as Siva .

vehicles

The most successful model was the mini buggy . This was a kind of VW Buggy , but based on the Mini . The chassis and superstructure kit cost £ 195 in 1970 . 95 copies were made by 1976.

Between 1970 and 1975 Siva made 12 copies of the Mule . This vehicle was similar to the Mini Moke . A tubular steel frame with a mini subframe formed the basis.

The S 160 was a coupé on the chassis of the VW Beetle . The gullwing doors , the curved windshield and the headlights set back a little were striking . The lead S 530 was a little longer and wider. Here a drive V6 engine from Ford to the vehicle. A version called V8 with a V8 engine remained a prototype. Twelve of these coupés were made between 1971 and 1972.

Siva also sold twelve copies of the successor Saluki between 1973 and 1976. The VW base was retained, but both the front including the headlights and the windshield were changed. Additional panes were now installed in front of the doors . Embeesea Kit Cars did the design.

The Llama was the successor to the Mule . The Hillman Imp with rear engine now formed the basis. Chrysler had promised to deliver parts, but stopped producing the Imp a little later. 50 copies were made between 1974 and 1976.

The Sierra was similar to the Willys Jeep , was based on the Ford Escort and was only created three times in 1976.

The Mehari as a replica of the Citroën Méhari based on the Citroën 2 CV remained a one-off in 1976.

literature

Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Siva (III).
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. 1465. (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. 231-233 (English).

Web links

Allcarindex (accessed December 12, 2014)
Imp page (accessed December 20, 2014)

Individual evidence

↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Siva (III).
↑ 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. 1465. (English)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ 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. 231-233 (English).

[Die_Internationale_Automobil-Enzyklopädie-1] Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Siva (III).

[Beaulieu-2] 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. 1465. (English)

[Kit_Cars-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ 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. 231-233 (English).