Eberhard Schulz (car designer)

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Eberhard Schulz (born September 23, 1940 ) is a German car designer .

Eberhard Schulz studied mechanical engineering but finished his studies before the main diploma. In 1968 he began to build his own sports car with 400 hp and a top speed of more than 300 km / h, the Erator GT, in a large laundry room and in his front garden in Klostermoor, East Frisia .

He drove to Mercedes-Benz and Porsche in this vehicle to apply: He did not have a degree, but the Erator GT was parked in the parking lot as a reference. He got a job at Porsche in 1971, but was able to develop his second car in his spare time, the CW 311 with the Mercedes 300 SL gullwing as a model.

In 1977 he bought a Porsche 904 , which he restored and later used to take part in classic car races.

In 1978 he met the tuner Rainer Buchmann , whose company bb had up to 60 employees. Schulz left Porsche and worked with Buchmann. But the two fell out and separated after a short time. In 1982 Schulz founded his own company Isdera , an acronym for "engineering office for styling, design and racing". His company benefited from development contracts from the industry, but at the same time he developed his first own production car, the Spyder 033i, which was unveiled at the 1983 Geneva Motor Show .

With similar shapes, he built and marketed a small series of 30 vehicles under the name Isdera Imperator 108i . The '8' stands for the V-engine with 8 cylinders. When his fame was beginning to fade in the 1980s, he introduced his Isdera Commendatore 112i with a V12 engine. In 2006 he completed his vehicle development with the Isdera Autobahnkurier 116i . This vehicle has two V8 engines, i.e. 16 cylinders.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Automobil + Motorrad Chronik , Issue 1/1982, p. 16.
  2. ↑ http://www.traumautoarchiv.de/html/5989.html
  3. ↑ World famous and unknown - the Isdera dream car factory (PDF; 72 kB) Automobilwoche.
  4. ↑ Automobil + Motorrad Chronik, issue 1/1982, p. 15.
  5. ↑ Almost unknown, but unforgotten. Handelsblatt.
  6. ↑ Tom Grünweg: Isdera Autobahnkurier 116i: A mad rarity. Spiegel Online Auto.
  7. ↑ World famous and unknown - The Isdera Manufactory. N24.
personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German car designer
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1940