John Fitch & Co.

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The John Fitch & Company , emerged from Sport and Utility Motors , was an American automobile manufacturer.

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Racing driver John Fitch manufactured vehicles for his Sport and Utility Motors company in White Plains , New York , between 1949 and 1951 .

The Type B was presented in 1949 . The two-seater Roadster based on the chassis of the Fiat 508 Balilla provided with a V8 engine of Ford was equipped with 2229 cc of displacement a power output of 105 hp (77 kW) at 5300 min -1 rendered. The modified body of the Crosley Hotshot was pulled over the whole thing . The wheelbase of the Fitch Type B was 2413 mm, its total length 3556 mm.

The car reached 100 km / h from a standstill in 6.3 s and the top speed was 193 km / h. Fitch finished second at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix in 1950. The cars were sold for US $ 2850.

From 1964 Fitch was active again. This time the company name was John Fitch & Co. Inc. , possibly just John Fitch . The seat was in Falls Village , Connecticut . From 1966, the Fitch-Phoenix was based on the Chevrolet Corvair , from which the chassis and engine came. As with Type B, the wheelbase was 2413 mm, but the total length was 4420 mm. The six-cylinder piston engine of the Corvair with 2687 cc capacity was tuned so that it 170 bhp (125 kW) at 5200 min -1 gave. The car was supposed to cost US $ 8,700, but only a prototype was made. There was a collaboration with Costruzione Automobili Intermeccanica from Italy .

The company was active in the field of vehicle tuning until 1970.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Fitch; Fitch-Phoenix.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 551-552. (English)
  • John Gunnell: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975. Krause Publications, Iola 2002, ISBN 0-87349-461-X . (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 551-552. (English)
  2. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Fitch; Fitch-Phoenix.