RE: Alfa factories outside Italy

["JMazlumian" <jmazl@domain.elided>]

Greg wrotr
>
> Kaiser's plant in Cordoba, Argentina, once built a car called a Torino
> which used the 230 cid "Tornado" (Continental block) OHC I-6 engine
> (hemi-headed) (the same engine of early '60's Jeep Gladiator pickup and
> Wagoneer fame) with a specisl 12 port head and 3 - 45 DCOE carbs.
> (310 HP @
> 5200 rpm was the rating) It had a five speed tranny built under license
> from ZF, and used the inner body tub from our boxy, late '60's Rambler
> American. It also had IRS, and rather impressive amounts (8"??) of wheel
> travel at each corner (out of local necessity).
>
> I believe that the car's official name was the "Torino SM-420". They were
> faster than stink!
>
> All I ever heard about the outer body skin is that it was a Pinin-Farina
> design. Perhaps it used recycled Alfa panels??
>
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The Torino Grand Routier (4 doors I believe) and Torino 380W, the coupe with
3 double Webbers, and a more civiliced version, were indeed derived from the
Rambler American, and modified by Pininfarina.  I don't believe had any Alfa
or Fiat parts in them.  Yes, they were extremely fast, revolutionized open
road and piste racing of the era, but failed miserably in Nurburgring.
There power plant was also modified (the race version) by a gentleman called
Orestes Berta, who still is listed as manufacturer of racing cars in
Cordoba.  What a visionary!

Jorge
Redlands
Milano (but always dreamed with driving a Torino 380W when  I was a kid)

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