Ginetta G15 Series 1

The Ginetta G15 Series 1 was the first production series of the Ginetta G15, the small rear-engined two-seat sports car that Ginetta designed in 1967 as the replacement for the G4. According to the Ginetta Owners Club, the new car was modern, well equipped and economical, and quicker and easier to build than the G4. It used a square tube chassis bolted to the body instead of bonded to it, a rear-mounted Sunbeam Imp Sport engine and transmission with Imp trailing-arm rear suspension, and Triumph-based twin wishbone suspension at the front. The prototype shown at the 1967 London Motor Show carried a rear radiator, which was moved to the front for production. Orders began slowly and then took off once full production was under way in the summer of 1968. The club records that only about a dozen Series 1 cars were built before revisions were prepared for the 1968 Motor Show, and that no two of them were quite the same.