Carrozzeria Marazzi
The Carrozzeria Marazzi is an Italian manufacturer of automobile bodies from Caronno Pertusella near Milan , which is widely regarded as the successor to the Carrozzeria Touring . Starting in 1967, the company manufactured bodies for numerous, now classic, sports cars and is currently primarily involved in armoring series vehicles.
Company history
The founder of the company was Mario Marazzi. He had worked as an engineer at Carrozzeria Touring in the 1960s. A few months after Touring had ceased operations at the end of 1966, Marazzi established his own company in close proximity to his former employer, which initially specialized in vehicle bodies for small series manufacturers and thus operated in a similar market segment to Touring. Marazzi subsequently took on orders and employees of Carrozzeria Touring.
Marazzi's first order was the production of the factory body for the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale . Apart from that, the relationship with Lamborghini was particularly important in the first few years . Lamborghini initially commissioned Carrozzeria Touring with the production of the bodies for the Lamborghini 400GT 2 + 2 . After Tourings went bankrupt, Marazzi was able to step in at short notice and completed the last copies of this model. The successor to the 400 GT, the Lamborghini Islero , was designed by Marazzi's designer Federico Formenti - also a former Touring employee - and manufactured by Marazzi; later Marazzi also built the bodies for the similarly designed Lamborghini Jarama .
The bodies of the Carrozzeria Marazzi had an extremely bad reputation in the 1960s and 1970s. The manufacturing quality was seen as poor, especially for the Lamborghini Islero, but also for the Jarama. In the case of the Jarama, the clearly noticeable excess weight of the body was also criticized.
After Lamborghini stopped selling the Jarama in 1978, Marazzi stopped producing complete automobiles. In the 1970s and 1980s, Marazzi built some replicas of the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale. In addition, the company manufactured numerous hearses based on Italian mass-produced vehicles. It has long been concerned with the armor of series vehicles, which are primarily used by the police. This includes secured versions of the Alfa Romeo 159 and the Land Rover .
Vehicles of the Carrozzeria Marazzi
- Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale (1967)
- Lamborghini 400 GT 2 + 2 (1967)
- Lamborghini Islero (1967)
- Lamborghini Jarama (1970)
- Alfa Romeo 90 station wagon (1985; two prototypes)
- Fiat Punto Cabrio Bricò (1994)
- Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione Spider (prototype 2008)
literature
- Georg Amtmann and Halwart Schrader: Italian sports cars . Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-01988-4 .
- Frank Oleski and Hartmut Lehbrink: Series sports cars . 1983.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Schrader, Amtmann: Italienische Sportwagen, p. 233.
- ↑ There is no clarity regarding the scope of production. Most sources assume 12 vehicles with Marazzi bodies; however, only eight vehicles are actually known. Cf. Mick Walsh: Venus de Milano . Driving report for the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33/2 Stradale in Classic and Sports Car, issue January 1999
- ↑ Model history of the Lamborghini Islero at www.qv500.com ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ The author Hartmut Lehbrink speaks of a "pitiful" montage; see. Oleski, Lehbrink: Series Sports Cars, p. 351.
- ↑ Model history of the Lamborghini Jarama at www.qv500.com ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ^ Auto catalog, 1983/84 edition with illustration.
- ↑ Description and illustration at www.meisenbacher.nl
