Conrero Supersonica

[JHertzman@xxxxxxx]

In AD7-233 Luc Colemont asks what happened to the 1900 Conrero
Supersonica who drove the 1953 MM. -  - restaured ? - -  owned by ?
- - -  lost ? - -  etc....

There is a book on Conrero by Roberto Sgarzi; the name Supersonica does not
appear but there is a Conrero 2000 Sport based on the 1900, commissioned by a
Swiss driver named Robert Fehldmann and driven by him in the 1953 Mille
Miglia. It was bodied by Ghia, not always the most conservative coachbuilder,
in a style which might be thought of as Buck Rogers, probably too restrained
to be considered full-blown Batman. The same body was used, according to the
book, on two Fiat 8Vs and an Aston Martin, but is probably best known in the
English-speaking world from the Williment (sp?) Cobra. It did not finish in
the Mille Miglia, and a little later was destroyed in a fire after an accident
in Switzerland. 

I assume it is the same car, but there are two Californians, John de Boer and
Stu Schaller, who are known to some on this list and who might know
considerably more about this and a slightly later Conrero 2000 Sport. De Boer
is the publisher of The Etceterini Register, also known as The Register of
Italian Oddities, and is an admirable compiler of things one would never
expect anyone to know about obscure machinery from the peninsula. Schaller,
who says that it was he, not de Boer who coined the Etceterini term, is more
focused on Alfas than on Italian cars generally and would almost certainly
have opinions on the Conreros.

John H. 

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