Officina Meccanica Berardo Taraschi

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Officina Meccanica Berardo Taraschi

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founding 1947
resolution 1963
Seat Teramo , Italy
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Officina Meccanica Berardo Taraschi was an Italian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Berardo Taraschi's company started producing automobiles in Teramo in 1947. The brand name was initially Taraschi . When Attilio Giannini came into contact with Taraschi in 1950, the brand name changed to Giaur . This is an artificial word that is made up of Gia nnini and Ur ania. In 1955 the collaboration with Giannini ended. After the separation from Giannini, racing cars with the brand name Taraschi were produced until 1960 and tuning parts until 1963.

vehicles

The company manufactured sports and racing cars. The first Urania model had a two - cylinder boxer engine with 743 cm³ displacement from the BMW R 75 . From 1950 engines from Giannini Automobili were used. After 1955, vehicles for Formula Junior were created, among other things .

  • Giaur from 1953

  • Giaur from 1953

  • Motor of a giaur

  • Taraschi Formula Junior from 1960

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • George Nick Georgano : The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 2 G – O. 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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