Viking performance

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Viking mini sport
Rear view

Viking Performance was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Bill Last, who also founded Trident Cars , ran the Woodbridge company . In 1966 he took over the production of a model from the Peel Engineering Company and started producing automobiles. The brand name was Viking . Production ended in the same year. A total of around 23 to 25 vehicles were built.

vehicles

The only model was mini sports . It was the successor to the Peel Trident Mini . The base was a tubular frame. Many parts such as the front and rear subframes and windshield came from the Mini . The coupé body was made of fiberglass . It offered space for 2 + 2 people.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , Chapter Viking (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. 1680. (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. 267 (English).

Web links

Commons : Viking Performance  - collection of images, 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 Viking (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. 1680. (English)
  3. ^ 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. 267 (English).