Automóviles y bumper cars Kapi

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Automóviles y bumper cars Kapi
legal form
founding 1950
resolution 1958
Seat Barcelona , Spain
management Federico Saldaña Ramos
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Kapi Kapiscooter from 1954
Kapi Jip from 1955-1956
Kapi Chiqui from 1956

Automóviles y bumper cars Kapi was a Spanish manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles .

Company history

Federico Saldaña Ramos founded the company in Barcelona in 1950 and began producing automobiles and motorcycles. In 1958 car production ended. The figures for the number of automobiles produced vary between 70 and 300. Including the motorcycles, around 5500 vehicles were produced.

Automobiles

Various small cars were produced , some only as prototypes or in small quantities. Only two models achieved significant numbers. One model was the Kapiscooter , a tricycle with the single wheel in the front. The motor was mounted in the rear and drove the right rear wheel. The engine came either from Montesa or Hispano Villiers and had a displacement of 125 cm³ or 175 cm³ . In 1955 the Jip model appeared with four wheels. It was similar to the jeep . Here, too, a motor with either 125 cm³ or 175 cm³ capacity drove one of the two rear wheels.

A Kapiscooter can be seen in the car museum Collecció d'Automòbils de Salvador Claret in Sils and a jip in the Museo-Colección de Vehículos Históricos in Guadalest .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Kapi.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 813. (English)
  • George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)
  • Walter Drawer: Small Cars International. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-01959-6 .

Web links

Commons : Kapi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 813. (English)
  2. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Kapi.