Turner Sports Cars (Wolverhampton) Ltd ® ™

Already established as a racing car specialist and race car builder, Jack Turner decided during 1954  to produce a simple, affordable, entry-level sports car. These cars featured a large diameter steel tube ladder frame chassis (except the GT model), Steel or fibreglass body depending on the year, and running gear and power plants from a variety of sources such as Austin A Series, Coventry Climax and Ford. Early Turner racing cars of which 9 Chassis were produced were on occasion fitted with engines designed and built by Jack Turner.  

Turner Sports Cars were lightweight with a good power to weight ratio, and renowned for great handling, both on the road and the race track. While providing a lot of fun on the road, Turners excelled in Motor Sport and racing competition.   In the UK they won the Team prize in 1958 and 1959 and a Class Championship win in the 1960 Autosport Championship as well as  many individual successes in club racing including between 1956 and 1966 and beyond. Initial success was in the Class up to 1000 cc with cars fitted with BMC A series engines and later in the higher Classes with Coventry Climax FWA and FWE engines , and later with the Ford engines.  In the USA Turners won the 1957 & 1958 Sam Collier Memorial Trophy race and competed at Sebring in 1959 and 1960. Turner also won 3 SCCA D-Production National races in 1966; and have won a number of  SCCA F-Production National Championships over the years. Turner Sports Cars were well known to "surprise" the better known cars such as Lotus, MG and Healey both on the race track and the road and continue to be successful in Historic Motor Sport around the world to this day.

Jack Turner holding a picture of his Turner GT in South Wales 1985