Officine Specializzata Costruzioni Automobili

Officine Specializzata Costruzioni Automobili
legal form	Corporation
founding	1947
resolution	1967
Seat	Bologna , Italy
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Officine Specializzata Costruzioni Automobili , OSCA for short , was an Italian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Maserati brothers had already sold their previous company, Maserati , to the entrepreneur Adolfo Orsi in 1937 . However, they were tied to Maserati for ten more years through a contract with the new owner . After this period they founded the Officine Specializzata Costruzioni Automobili company in Bologna in 1947 for the production of automobiles. Production ended in 1967.

vehicles

There are sports and racing cars produced. Most vehicles were equipped with four-cylinder engines with displacements between 750 and 2000 cm³. Only the 2000 S model , which was produced from 1952 to 1956, had a six-cylinder engine .

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  Osca MT4 from 1949

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  Osca MT4 from 1953

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  1954 OSCA 2000 p

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  OSCA 1600 GT 2 from 1963, body by Fissore

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 : Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)

Web links

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

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on October 13, 2013)