Fabbrica Automobili Sport Torino

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Fabbrica Automobili Sport Torino
legal form
founding 1919
resolution 1925
Seat Turin , Italy
management Arturo Concaris, Alberto Orasi
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Fabbrica Automobili Sport Torino was an Italian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Arturo Concaris, who founded the Fabbrica Italiana Motori Aviazione aircraft engine factory in 1913 , founded the automobile production company in Turin in 1919 . The brand name was FAST . Alberto Orasi was the designer. When he took over the company in 1922, he changed the name to Fabbrica Automobili Sport Torino (FAST) di Ing.Orasi . Production ended in 1925.

vehicles

The first model was the Tipo Uno . This was a sports car. Parts of the engine were made of aluminum . The four-cylinder engine developed 80 hp from a displacement of 2991 cm³ (84 mm bore and 135 mm stroke )  . The transmission had three gears. The bodies offered space for two to three people. The Due T and Due S models with a shortened wheelbase followed as sports and touring cars . These models were similar to the Tipo Uno and had the same engine but a four-speed gearbox and four-wheel brakes. The design-related top speed for the Due S as a Coupé de Ville was specified as 120 km / h.

Races

Caberto Conelli and Eugenio Beria d'Argentine successfully fielded the vehicles in 1920 and 1921 in the Parma – Poggio di Berceto , Susa - Moncenisio and Aosta - Gran San Bernardo mountain races . Gastone Gastaldetti set the fastest time in the 1924 Biella - Oropa hill climb . In 1924, all three registered vehicles reached the Targa Florio destination within the classification.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • Nick Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 1 A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
  • Collective of authors: Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Brands · Models · Technology. Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1989.

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