Grosso e Vece

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Grosso e Vece
legal form
founding 1961
resolution 1967
Seat Turin , Italy
management Giuseppe Grosso
Roberto Vece
Branch Body shop

Grosso e Vece (also: Grosso & Vece ) was an Italian body construction company that manufactured body shells for small Italian automobile manufacturers in the 1960s . It was best known for its relationship with Bizzarrini .

Company history

Bodyshell from Grosso e Vece: Bizzarrini GT 5300

The company was founded by Giuseppe Grosso and Roberto Vece. From 1956 to 1961, Grosso was co-owner of the Moncalieri- based company Martelleria Silla (later: Gaia e Grosso), which carried out plumbing work for Turin design studios as a subcontractor. Vece worked in the 1950s as a workshop manager for Carrozzeria Allemano . In 1961 Grosso gave up his stake in Silla and Vece left Allemano. Both founded a new body shop in Turin , which was called Grosso e Vece.

As a supplier, Grosso e Vece produced - similar to Silla before it - body panels for various automobile manufacturers. The largest client was initially the Carrozzeria Vignale . In the second half of 1964 Grosso e Vece produced 50 bodies for a sports car designed by Intermeccanica , which was sold in the United States as the Apollo GT and the Vetta Ventura. The order was limited to the production of body shells; Carbondio, a Turin-based company, was responsible for completing the cars by installing the glazing, wiring and interior, as well as painting .

From 1966, Grosso e Vece worked primarily for Bizzarrini. The Tuscan company Automobili Bizzarrini, which sold the closed sports car GT 5300 in small numbers , had problems with its body suppliers from the start. The bodies for the GT 5300 came from Carrozzeria Sports Cars until 1965 and from BBM in Modena in 1966 . When BBM ceased operations in 1966, Grosso e Vece took over the production of the body shells for Bizzarrini. Here, too, the completion of the cars was outsourced to Carbondio.

In 1967, Grosso e Vece ran into economic difficulties - possibly because Bizzarrini was unable to pay its supplier - and ceased operations during the summer. Subalpina took over the production of the last Bizzarrini bodies .

literature

  • Alessandro Sannia: Enciclopedia dei carrozzieri italiani , Società Editrice Il Cammello, Torino, 2017, ISBN 978-88-96796-41-2

Web links

Commons : Grosso e Vece  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alessandro Sannia: Enciclopedia dei carrozzieri italiani , Società Editrice Il Cammello, Torino, 2017, ISBN 978-88-96796-41-2 , p. 520.
  2. ↑ a b Alessandro Sannia: Enciclopedia dei carrozzieri italiani , Società Editrice Il Cammello, Torino, 2017, ISBN 978-88-96796-41-2 , p. 288.
  3. ↑ Andrew McCredie, Paula Reisner: Intermeccanica: The Story of the Prancing Bull , Veloce Publishing Ltd, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84584-249-9 , p. 166 f.
  4. ↑ Eduard Hattuma: Bizzarrini GT Strada 5300 and GT America , in: Old- und Youngtimer CH, issue March-April / 2010, p. 21 ff.