Vindicator Cars

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Vindicator Cars
legal form Limited
founding 1989
resolution 2017
Seat Lye , West Midlands
management John Butler
Branch Automobile manufacturer
Website www.vindicator.co.uk

Vindicator Sprint
Vindicator Family
Vindicator F 4

Vindicator Cars was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1989 Roger Lea founded the company in Hagley in the county of Worcestershire . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Vindicator . In 1999 John Butler and Alan Taylor took over the company. A little later, Taylor left. In 2004 the company moved to Halesowen and later to Lye , both in the West Midlands . A total of around 189 copies were made. The company was dissolved in 2017.

vehicles

The first model was the Concept Coupé . This was a two-seater coupe . A special feature was the roof, which, like the Bond Bug , opened the front. Although it was on offer from 1989 to 1991, it remained a one-off.

The SR of 1991 derived from it was also created only once.

From 1991 the best-selling Sprint model was on offer. It was similar to the Lotus Seven . An open two-seater body made of aluminum was mounted on a special chassis or, from 1994, on a spaceframe . Only the fenders , trunk lid and the front part of the body were made of fiberglass . Many parts initially came from the Ford Cortina and Ford Sierra . About 150 copies were made of this.

The Shadow was first presented in 1995 at a kit car show in Stoneleigh and was available from 1997. This was a roadster . This model found around ten buyers.

The Vulcan derived from it was designed to be a bit sportier. About six copies of this model were made from 1998.

The Family , the four-seater version of the Sprint , found around 20 buyers from 2003.

The F 4 appeared in 2008. It had many parts from the Ford Mondeo . It offered space for two people in a row. The manufacturer saw a resemblance to a Phantom F 4 fighter aircraft.

2010, production of the models was Veleno and Predator by car Speciali taken. These were optical independent sports cars. The Predator was only available as a complete vehicle.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Vindicator.
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1681 (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. 268-269 (English).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Companieshouse.gov.uk . Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  2. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Vindicator.
  3. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1681 (English).
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h 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. 268-269 (English).