Menon Veículos

Menon Veículos
legal form
founding	1960s
resolution	1990s
Seat	São Paulo , Brazil
Branch	Automobiles

Menon Veículos was a Brazilian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The São Paulo-based company started producing automobiles in the late 1960s. The brand name was Menon . Production ended in the early 1990s.

vehicles

Initially, only VW buggies were in the range. Many were similar to models from BRM , Cooper, and Glaspac . An open, doorless body made of fiberglass was mounted on a chassis from Volkswagen do Brasil with a rear engine . An air-cooled four - cylinder boxer engine drove the rear wheels.

There were also Baja bugs and simple pipe structures for car races on the same basis .

In 1980 the T appeared as a prototype . It was inspired by the Triumph Spitfire . The details were a chassis from the VW Brasília shortened by 28 cm , a two-seater fiberglass body, roll bars behind the seats with struts to the windshield frame and two removable roof halves. The production version from 1982 had an uncut chassis and the choice between a convertible and a targa roof . Only a few vehicles were made of this model.

In the second half of the 1980s, double cabs for pick-ups were also built .

1986 followed with the bayanette, a pick-up based on the VW Beetle .

Web links

João F. Scharinger: Lexicar Brasil (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ João F. Scharinger: Lexicar Brasil (Portuguese, accessed on October 23, 2016)

[lexicar-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ João F. Scharinger: Lexicar Brasil (Portuguese, accessed on October 23, 2016)