Justicialista

Justicialista Sedán

Justicialista Gran Sport from 1954

Justicialista is a former Argentine vehicle brand.

Justicialista Gran Sport 1954 (fittings)

history

It was founded in 1951 under the government of Juan Perón . The brand name was the official name of the Peronist Party . The Justicialista brand was part of the state-owned Industrias Aeronáuticas y Mecánicas del Estado (IAME) in Córdoba (Argentina) . The goal was an independent Argentine (automotive) industry. With the fall of Perón in 1955, IAME was restructured and the Justicialista brand was dissolved. Production resumed in 1956 with modifications under the name Graciela .

vehicles

Sedan

Series production began in 1952. The sedan was a 4295 mm long and 850 kg heavy two-door model with a box-frame chassis. The design was created in Argentina and was based on the 1951 Chevrolet. From 1952 to 1954 a 690 cm³ two-cylinder two - stroke engine with 17 kW (23 HP) at 4500 rpm according to the DKW model was used. From 1953 a four-cylinder two-stroke twin-piston engine based on the Puch model with 800 cc and initially 23.5 kW (32 hp) at 4200 rpm and later 26.5 kW (36 hp) at 4500 rpm was available. The drive was via a three-speed gearbox on the front wheels.

Pick-up, Furgón and Rural

On the basis of the limousine, a pick-up (Camioneta) with a loading area made of wood and from 1953 a closed van (Furgón) were produced from 1952. A station wagon ("rural") was created as a prototype.

Gran Sport

From 1953 to 1955 the Coupé Gran Sport was produced with the 800 cc four-cylinder two-stroke twin-piston engine and a 1.5-liter boxer engine from Porsche with 50 kW (55 hp) at 4400 rpm. It was one of the first cars with a plastic body (polyester resin). The dimensions largely correspond to the sedan. Around 250 sports cars were built. There was a prototype with a V8 engine .

Others

In addition to cars, the Rastrojero pick-up truck , airplanes and motorcycles were also produced.

literature

• Roger Gloor: Post-war cars: passenger cars 1945 - 1960. Hallwag, Bern / Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-444-10263-1 . (Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-8228-8994-X )
• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Justicialista.
• George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 804-805. (English)

Web links

Commons : Justicialista  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lexicon of Argentine Vehicles (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Graciela, the Argentine Wartburg (PDF; 178 kB), Lars Büttner, "Wartburg Signals", 2/2001
2. ↑ History of the brand ( Memento from June 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Justicialista.
4. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 804-805. (English)