Transformer Cars

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Transformer Cars
legal form
founding 1984
resolution 1990
Seat Frant , East Sussex
management Gerry Hawkridge
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Transformer HF

Transformer Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1984 Gerry Hawkridge founded the company in Frant in the county of East Sussex . He was assisted by Colin Artus and Gordon Cruickshank. They started making automobiles and kits . The brand name was Transformer . Production ended in 1990. Other sources give the production period from 1986 to 1996. A total of about 250 copies were made. Hawkridge also founded Hawk Cars in 1986 .

vehicles

The HF 2000 and HF 3000 models were on offer . These were replicas of the Lancia Stratos . On a special chassis a was coupe -Karosserie of fiberglass mounted. Many parts came from the Lancia Beta . Various engines from Honda , Rover , V6 engines from Alfa Romeo and V6 and V8 engines from Ferrari powered the vehicles.

The successor was the Hawk Stratos from Hawk Cars.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Hawk (IV).
  • 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. 1607. (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. 257 (English).

Web links

Commons : Transformer Cars  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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 Hawk (IV).
  2. ^ 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. 1607. (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. 257 (English).
  4. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed March 1, 2015)