Robin Hood Engineering

The Robin Hood Engineering Ltd. was a British manufacturer of Kit -Cars, the 1984-2006 was a resident of Mansfield Woodhouse ( Nottinghamshire ). The factory area was 2,800 square meters.

The company was founded in Sherwood ( Nottinghamshire ) in 1984 and initially presented replicas of Ferrari Daytona based on the Rover SD1 ago.

In 1989 the product range has been completely revamped: It has now been the Robin Hood S7, a Lotus Seven -inspired kit-car, here.

Also in 1989, a Robin Hood was introduced based on the Triumph TR7 and for affordable £ 995, - VAT. offered. The car came with car enthusiasts of good and so some kits were sold. The car has been continuously developed and it showed that you needed a number of different engines so that more customers could afford such a car. The Triumph Dolomite replaced the TR7 from a donor vehicle; the engines of between 1.1 and 2.0 liter engine capacity were very popular.

An application filed by Caterham Cars in the Supreme Court injunction brought the production to a virtual standstill, but the lawyers were finally able to eliminate the problem. Robin Hood Engineering was especially trying not to deviate from the negotiated agreements in this context.

There was a monocoque chassis with the Triumph Dolomite, the Ford Cortina or the Ford Sierra as donor vehicles. Although the donor vehicles and structures changed over the years, it still remained company policy is to supply good quality. Other kit-car customers roamed the cemeteries after car components for their cars, but Robin Hood always followed the principle: A kit and a donor vehicle result in a roadworthy car, which was a major selling point.

In the years 1996 and 1997, the sales figures of Robin Hood reached over 500 kits per year and so anxious to be larger premises and new machinery to comply with the production. 1998, the single decrease in the MOT ( according to the German individual acceptance by TÜV ) was introduced, whereby the customers were confused and rather waited to see what would happen. The launch date has been postponed several times by the government and so the whole kit-car industry suffered in the UK.

This sale weak period allowed the owners of Robin Hood Engineering, who was around 50 years old now, a critical look at the activities of his company, and he would like to be sold, to pursue other interests. But since there were no takers, the license for manufacturing the monocoque chassis to expire soon and the investment had swallowed a lot of capital in CNC machines, activities were limited from carrying on the business with a completely new model.

Along with a number of chassis experts designed a revolutionary new chassis. It consisted mainly of 38 mm thick pipes and was an impressive feat of engineering. It only took about 5 minutes to bend the tubes, and the plugging and welding needed about 1 hour, a perfect recipe for a new Sparkit.

The new chassis was named by the workforce " Tubey " and the name " Project 2B " was chosen as the sales name. Between August 21, 1999 and 11 December 1999 exactly 205 kits were sold.

On 25 September 2006, the remnants of the now bankrupt Robin Hood Engineering Ltd were. of the Great British Sports Cars Ltd.. taken.

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