Unipower

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Unipower from 1966

Unipower was a British car brand.

Company history

The company Universal Power Drives Limited from Perivale in Middlesex , which already since 1934 trucks produced, began in 1966 with the production of passenger cars .

In 1970 automobile production was stopped after about 75 copies were made.

vehicles

The only model was the Unipower GT . A flat coupé body was mounted on a chassis developed in-house . The four-cylinder engine from the Mini was placed in the middle of the vehicle . There were two engines to choose from. The smaller engine with a capacity of 998 cm³ produced 40 kW, the larger engine with 1275 cm³ 55 kW. From 1967 to 1970 the small coupes could be found on many racetracks in Europe and overseas. In 1969, Team Unipower fielded two works racing cars in almost all major races of the sports car world championship , with Roger Enever and Andrew Hedges they were able to hire two long-term drivers who had previously driven for MG. However, the team was unlucky this season, a vehicle was completely destroyed during test drives by a mechanic at the 1969 Targa Florio . In 1970 the company left the international racing operations to the private team of Stanley Robinson, who replaced the now outdated BLMC mini technology with a Cosworth FVA Formula 2 engine.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader: The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5
  • GN Georgano: cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 1975 (French)
  • David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895–1975 , Veloce Publishing PLC, Dorchester (1997), ISBN 1-874105-93-6 (English)

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