Zealia

Zealia
legal form
founding	1996
resolution	1999
Seat	Cambridge , Cambridgeshire
management	Brian Wilkinson
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Zealia was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

1996 Brian Wilkinson founded the company in Cambridge in the county of Cambridgeshire . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was Zealia . Production ended in 1999. A total of about 15 copies were made.

vehicles

The only model was a replica of the Jaguar E-Type in the lightweight version . The engines came from Jaguar Cars , the wheel suspensions from the Jaguar E-Type, the five-speed transmissions from Getrag . The body was mostly made of aluminum , only a few parts such as the hood, doors, rear fenders , trunk lid and hardtop made of fiberglass .

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. 1782. (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. 280 (English).

Web links

Allcarindex (accessed May 1, 2015)

Individual evidence

^ ^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. 1782. (English)
^ ^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. 280 (English).

[Beaulieu-1] 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. 1782. (English)

[Kit_Cars-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. 280 (English).