Siva Motor Car Company

At the suggestion of Michael Saunders, who ran a company called Siva Engineering in Bournemouth, the pair set out to design a series of Edwardian-looking cars.

The Edwardian series had bodies largely made of glass fibre that could be fitted to a chassis supplied by the customer.

For GBP125 the builder received a body, scuttle and bonnet, four wings, wheel covers and a basic instruction sheet.

The first Edwardians were followed by the Raceabout and San Remo on a VW Beetle frame and Parisienne on a Citroen 2CV.

The project was sold to Euromotor in Amsterdam who continued production until 1976 when a fire destroyed their factory.

The closed body has gullwing doors and rectangular pop-up headlamps and a fully trimmed bodyshell was priced at GBP895 rising later to GBP1,225.

The similar S530 was produced for the 1971 London Motor Show and sponsored by the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

The kits were priced at GBP450 and included the glass fibre body tub, gullwing doors, nose and tail sections, seats and dashboard.