Alpha Street productions and later Alpha Sports Productions (ASP) were an Australian kit car and racing car manufacturer. It has made sports cars and open wheeler cars. Originally building cars based on the Lotus Seven but have evolved to construct their own distinctive designs. History Alpha street productions was founded by Ray Lewis and Rory Thompson in the early sixties after the two had met through a common interest in sportscars. Ray, the part owner of Lewis Brothers Buses amongst other businesses provided the premises for their venture at his family home of Alpha house on Alpha Street Kensington Park in Adelaide. Rory however provided the technical knowledge after earning qualifications in mechanical engineering from the South Australian Institute of Technology. Working initially on a Lotus 7 for Derek Jolly Rory decided certain deficiencies of the lotus design could be overcome with the design of a new chassis. This first attempt at an entire car was named the Bacchus after the Greek god of wine. The first of the chassis was sold bare but further cars were built with a variety of drivetrains fitted. After Ray returned from an overseas trip work began on what was now the Mk4 Bacchus clubman. This car was renamed twice though, first from Bacchus to Shrike and then from Shrike to ASP, the companies initials. This first road car was known as the ASP 320A and was the only of its type built. This car was sold to Paul Hannon who worked for the Savings Bank of South Australia and had spent time at the ASP premises when he was younger. The connection to the bank led the car to being used in an advertising campaign, driving sales of what was now the B spec of the new ASP clubman. Starting with the ASP 320B ASP started to build car specifically for racing with four 320B's produced for this purpose, although most have found their way onto road registration since. From these 320B clubmans came a short wheelbase version renamed the 340A. this was the beginning of a series of racing clubmans. This first car known also as the Potts lightweight was owned by Doug Potts was powered by a Galant motor and was later converted to a road car by ASP employee Colin Reilly. At about this time, 1971, ASP branched out into open wheeler formula cars with formula 2 and 3 cars,