GCS Cars Traded initially from Orpington

Orpington

Orpington is a suburban town and electoral ward in the London Borough of Bromley. It forms the southeastern edge of London's urban sprawl and is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.-History:...

 in Kent, UK and produced the Hawke (originally made by Burlington Cars

Burlington Cars

Burlington Cars was a British kit car company originally based in Southam, Warwickshire. They moved to Northampton in 1988 becoming the Burlington Motor Company reforming as the Burlington Design Group in 1989. Kit production seems to have stopped in around 1992. Founded by Haydn Davis the cars...

 as the Burlington SS). It is an open two seater modelled fairly closely, but differently enough, on the Morgan

Morgan Motor Company

The Morgan Motor Company is a British motor car manufacturer. The company was founded in 1910 by Harry Frederick Stanley Morgan, generally known as "HFS" and was run by him until he died, aged 77, in 1959. Peter Morgan, son of H.F.S., ran the company until a few years before his death in 2003...

. It has a substabtial square box frame chassis and a glass-reinforced plastic

Glass-reinforced plastic

Fiberglass , is a fiber reinforced polymer made of a plastic matrix reinforced by fine fibers of glass. It is also known as GFK ....

 body with two doors and soft-top. It used the Ford Cortina

Ford Cortina

As the 1960s dawned, BMC were revelling in the success of their new Mini – the first successful true minicar to be built in Britain in the postwar era...

 and later the Sierra

Ford Sierra

The Ford Sierra is a large family car that was built by Ford Europe from 1982 until 1993. It was designed by Uwe Bahnsen, Robert Lutz and Patrick le Quément. The code used during development was "Project Toni"....

 as the donor vehicles. It can take a variety of engines from Ford and the V8 Rover.

The company was eventually sold to Tiger Racing

Tiger Racing

Tiger Racing is an English company manufacturing kit cars, formed as Tiger Cars Ltd in London in 1989 by Jim Dudley. In 1998 they moved to new premises in Cambridgeshire and changed their name to Tiger Sportscars Ltd. They are amongst the biggest kit car manufacturers, and are competitors to...

but then sold to LCD who currently both manufacture the car and supply the car as a kit.