SIVA (GB) 1969-1976

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SIVA (GB) 1969-1976
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ChFalkensteiner	Sep 19 2009, 05:20 PM Post #1
Subcompact Posts: 69 Group: Members Member #1,559 Joined: December 10, 2008 DLM or Cardboard Collector DLM Gender Male Preferred Brand Matchbox Location Linz, Austria Favorite Car Citroen DS	Founded by car designer Neville Trickett, the Siva Motor Car Co. of Aylesbury produced various kit cars in small quantities, including a veteran car replica called Edwardian, a small off-road vehicle called Llama and a sports car called S160 or Spyder, which was based on a VW Beetle platform but was often fitted with V8 engines of US origin. Several attempts to find other companies willing to produce Siva cars in larger quantities under license remained unsuccessful. Matchbox issued a model of the Siva S160, which may have been copied by some far east manufacturers but is otherwise the only small-scale Siva model in existence.



ChFalkensteiner	Sep 19 2009, 05:22 PM Post #2
Subcompact Posts: 69 Group: Members Member #1,559 Joined: December 10, 2008 DLM or Cardboard Collector DLM Gender Male Preferred Brand Matchbox Location Linz, Austria Favorite Car Citroen DS	Sadly I have never seen a Siva in real life, so I have to use a picture of an S160 which I found on the web many years ago: Note the 1:1 version of another well-known Matchbox model in the background! Attached to this post: SivaS160Spyder1971.jpg (34.26 KB) Edited by ChFalkensteiner, Sep 19 2009, 05:23 PM.



ChFalkensteiner	Sep 19 2009, 05:24 PM Post #3
Subcompact Posts: 69 Group: Members Member #1,559 Joined: December 10, 2008 DLM or Cardboard Collector DLM Gender Male Preferred Brand Matchbox Location Linz, Austria Favorite Car Citroen DS	The Matchbox model, here seen with the slightly less common four spoke wheels: Attached to this post: xLS41b_06sw.jpg (37.42 KB) Edited by ChFalkensteiner, Sep 19 2009, 05:25 PM.



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