Officine Introzzi

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Officine Introzzi
legal form Corporation
founding 1960
resolution 1990
Seat Lipomo , Italy
Branch Body shop

Five-door station wagon based on the Fiat 130

Officine Introzzi was an Italian manufacturer of automobile bodies . The company goes back to the Carrozzeria Introzzi ; Both were formally and organizationally independent, regardless of family ties between the owners. Officine Introzzi was best known for its commercial vehicles and conversions of Fiat models.

Company history

The founder of Officine Introzzi was the trained coachbuilder Giuseppe Introzzi. His father Giovanni ran the Como- based coachwork company Carrozzeria Introzzi, which in the years after the Second World War primarily manufactured commercial vehicle bodies, but also occasionally refined passenger cars. At the end of the 1950s, the company was still completely handcrafted. Giuseppe Introzzi, who had worked in his father's company for several years, tried to introduce machine manufacturing methods, but was unable to implement his ideas. In 1960 he left his parents' company and founded an independent company in Lipomo , a neighboring municipality of Como, which was called Officine Introzzi.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Officine Introzzi mainly manufactured commercial vehicles, with series automobiles being converted into ambulances, hearses and delivery vans. The products were standardized as much as possible. Small series were often created. Introzzi also offered armor for production vehicles; some copies were delivered to the Italian military. Conversions for purely private purposes remained the exception. An example of this is a five-door station wagon based on the Fiat 130 Berlina . In 1980 Introzzi launched a small series of refined Fiat Ritmo models: the series, named after a palace on Lake Como, Villa d'Este , had a wide C-pillar and a roof covered with vinyl . In the interior, the vehicles were equipped with leather upholstery, a television and a dictation machine. A little later, a similarly equipped model based on the Lancia Delta appeared .

Since the mid-1980s, the company has focused on armoring series sedans. According to a source, Introzzi was considered one of the leaders in this segment. Introzzi made an armored version of the Mercedes-Benz 600 for Augusto Pinochet , an armored Lancia Thema for Bettino Craxi and a Mercedes-Benz G-Class for Pope John Paul II (so-called Popemobile ).

Giuseppe Introzzi died in 1995. A little later the business was stopped and liquidated.

literature

  • Alessandro Sannia: Enciclopedia dei carrozzieri italiani , Aesthetica 2017, ISBN 978-8896796412

Web links

Commons : Officine Introzzi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Images of the Fiat 130 Station Wagon (accessed November 16, 2017).
  2. ^ "Auto Catalog No. 25 (1981/82), p. 109.
  3. ↑ Auto Catalog No. 28 (1984/85), p. 106.
  4. ↑ a b Alessandro Sannia: Enciclopedia dei carrozzieri italiani , Aesthetica 2017, ISBN 978-8896796412 , p. 304.