LuMo Conversions

[spack]

Anyone got any info on these cars i think all LuMo cars were fords

[MarkwG]

MarkwG said:

spack said:

Anyone got any info on these cars i think all LuMo cars were fords

As a starter for ten: bear in mind, I was a teenager back then, so memories are a bit fuzzy! I recall LuMo being the "go faster" brand for Tricentrol Ltd, who were the local Bedfordshire Ford dealer in the '70s & '80s. My Dad bought at least one of his Fords from them. I probably saw some of their cars, but wouldn't really know what I was looking at, excepting a "LuMo 105" badged mk1 Fiesta. This was around the time Dad bought his first Sierra in probably 1982/83. If I could insure it, I would have bought it. So I think it was a Ford thing, possibly to keep up with Shaw & Kilburn, who were the big DTV dealer locally. Happy to be corrected.

Article on the back story of Tricentrol here - https://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-tri...

Edited to add && correct - https://www.fiesta-mk1.co.uk/magazine_articles/mag...

[spack]

Thanks mark i bet that little festa was a flyer

[SS427 Camaro]

The Luton Motor Company LUMO don’t appear to have been around for long. I know that they were owned by an oil company and that two of the owners were mentioned by name in one magazine road test.

[CoupeKid]

Wish they still wrote road tests like that these days. Shows how far cars have changed.

Edited by CoupeKid on Saturday 21st June 12:51

[Shezbo]

spack said:

LuMo 3 Litre Capri

I see '1 LMJ' is now on a black KIA......

[spack]

[reddiesel]

Luton Motor Company (LUMO) , Tricentrol , Trimoco , then bought out by Hartwell in a hostile buy out is the genealogy . Trimoco last used the LUMO name for some tuning bits fitted to the Sierra and XR2 prior to the buy out . Interestingly I have never come across any cars in the intervening years being sold as such . How popular were they and what was the price difference with a standard RS is I suppose the interesting question .

Edited by reddiesel on Sunday 25th January 07:51