Spartan Owners Club What is New?

Welcome to the
Spartan Owner's Club.
This is the only Official Website
The Spartan is an old style roadster based on either Triumph Herald / Vitesse or Ford Cortina MkIII - MkV cars.
This page lists the recent updates. Please navigate the site using the buttons to the left. Only click here if you cannot see the welcome banner above or navigation to the left.

The club is based in the UK though we have members scattered around the world: Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, Norway, USA, Australia, New Zealand.

The club has a membership of around 300.

So many Spartans were exported to Holland there is now a Dutch Spartan Owners Club. Visit their bi-lingual website.

The Spartan was the idea of Jim McIntyre who produced the first Spartan Kit in 1973. This was based on the Triumph Herald or Vitesse and used the Herald chassis. Later Spartan produced their own chassis as the Triumph ones were starting to rot.

When the Herald ceased to be produced the car underwent a major re-design and was based on the Ford Cortina MK3 to 5.

In 1995 the Spartan Facory ceased to trade.

22/08/08	Dates and info for the winter Butlins weekend
21/08/08	New Car in For Sale section
11/08/08	New Event added 7th Sept.
3/8/08	Photo Galleries reworked and 30th SOC Aniversary added
23/7/08	Updates to Peterborough and Stafford show
21/7/08	New Cars in the for sale section
21/7/08	Photo Story of 30th aniversary added
12/7/08	New event added by new event co-ordinator
11/7/08	Additional Newark photos and extra photostory
10/7/08	See this edition of Spartacus link on Club Benefits page.
2/7/08	Spartan Quiz Page started return to see new material.
30/6/08	More cars for sale, More events
28/6/08	Photos and slideshow of Newark 08 added, more photo galleries liked in
27/6/08	New Chairman Terry Cartman
17/6/08	Video and photo story section added
12/6/08	New front end to the website and new domain
16/2/08	This years events added

This site was re-designed when it moved to this new URL in June 2008.

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since 3.2.1997

During those 22 years Jim developed several other kits starting with the Sherwood Estate, and the Starcraft Camper both of which were based on the Cortina. The factory was based in Pinxton, Nottinghamshire. In later years Steve Beardsall (who had been Jim's floor manager for many years) took over the company and produced the Treka which was based on the Ford Fiesta. During this time around 4000 kits were produced. Many of the older kits are now being bought and re-built.

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