Embo SpA

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Built by Embo since 1979: The De Tomaso Pantera
Body shells from Embo: The Maserati Kyalami
Individual Monteverdi High Speed ​​375/4s were built at Embo

The Embo SpA in Caramagna Piemonte is a supplier to the European automotive industry and introduced earlier vehicles under its own brand name here.

Company history as a body shop

The company was founded in 1970 as a body shop. It produced car bodies for small European automakers until the 1980s. Sometimes it was a matter of mere body-in-white, sometimes the vehicles were (almost) completely assembled.

Embo worked for De Tomaso and Maserati for a long time. Embo's products included the De Tomaso Pantera . Between 1979 and 1990 a total of 463 Panteras of the first series were produced, and from 1990 to 1993 another 41 copies of the second series were produced, as well as the De Tomaso Longchamp and the largely identical Maserati Kyalami . Also De Tomaso Deauville , including a station wagon version called Giardinetta, which was assembled as a one-off piece for Elisabeth Heskell, the wife of Alejandro de Tomaso , from some of the last Deauville parts in 1985.

In 1982 Embo presented a convertible version of the Maserati Biturbo that had just been presented on its own initiative . The cabriolet was based on the unabridged biturbo chassis and had a comparatively massive convertible top. There was no series production of this version. Instead, Maserati owner Alejandro de Tomaso opted for a Spyder version from the Zagato studios in Milan , which rested on a shortened chassis. Zagato was to manufacture all Biturbo Spyder by 1996.

In addition, Embo produced a number of other individual items such as a convertible version of the Innocenti Mini or a revised Renault 5 .

The collaboration with the Swiss automobile manufacturer Monteverdi is of particular importance . In the 1970s, Monteverdi had most of the bodies of his sports cars built at Carrozzeria Fissore in Savigliano near Milan; However, individual bodies were also manufactured in other workshops - possibly for capacity reasons. Embo produced at least four 375 / L coupés and two 375/4 sedans (unofficial production statistics from Monteverdi were circulating on an Internet site in 2007, in which the manufacturer was incorrectly referred to as BOEM).

After the market for small series vehicles got worse and worse in the 1980s, Embo switched its field of activity to the supply of sheet metal parts for various automobiles. At Embo today, body parts - especially for the spare parts sector - are produced in large numbers for a number of European manufacturers.

Automobiles with the brand name Embo

On the basis of the Fiat Campagnola , Embo manufactured an all - wheel drive off - road vehicle with a short wheelbase from 1978 . The vehicle length was 3100 mm. Three different engines from Fiat were available for the drive . These were gasoline engines with a capacity of 2000 cm³ and optionally 80 HP or 110 HP as well as a diesel engine with a displacement of 2500 cm³ and 72 HP. In 1980 there was an optical redesign. The model was now named Mega . Production ended in 1982.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. 2001.