Spydercars

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Spydersport Limited
Spydercars Limited
legal form Limited
founding 1970
Seat Whittlesey near Peterborough , Cambridgeshire
Branch Automobile manufacturer
Website www.spyder.co.uk

Spyder Cars Limited , previously Spyder Sports Limited , a British company in the automotive and former automobile manufacturer.

Company history

Samuel Victor Moore and Clifford Geoffrey Price founded Spydersport Limited in 1970 in Whittlesey near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire . They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was Spyder . A total of about 635 copies were made. The company now operates as Spydercars Limited , manufactures chassis and restores vehicles. The links to the dissolved Spyder Limited and Spyder Engineering with the same address are unclear.

vehicles

The Silverstone was inspired by the Lotus Seven . The basis was a tubular frame that was almost a semi- monocoque . Parts of the open two-seater body were made of fiberglass . Various four-cylinder engines , most of which came from Ford and Toyota and more rarely from Saab Automobile , powered the vehicles. However, a is rotary engine of Mazda delivered as a driving source. Between 1985 and 1989 about 23 or about 40 copies were made.

The Donington Conversion was similar to the Lotus Éclat . A self-made chassis provided the basis. A V8 engine from Rover drove the vehicles. About twelve copies were made from 1991 to 1992.

In addition, around 600 chassis were built from 1991 to build the Elan Conversion .

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. 1486. ​​(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. 237 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 1486. ​​(English)
  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. 237 (English).