Tulio Crespi

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Tulio Crespi, Carrocerias de Competicion
legal form
founding 1962
Seat Balcarce , Argentina
management Orlando Tulio Crespi
Branch Automobiles
Website www.tuliocrespi.com

Tulio Crespi, Carrocerias de Competicion is an Argentine company and a former manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Orlando Tulio Crespi founded the company in Balcarce in 1962 and began producing racing cars . Passenger cars followed in 1969 or 1970 . The brand name was Crespi . Car production ended in 1976 or in the 1980s.

vehicles

Initially, only racing cars were built, including the first monoposto made in Argentina, as well as Formula Junior vehicles and racing prototypes.

The Tulia GT was the manufacturer's first car. This was a hatchback coupe . Various six-cylinder engines from Chevrolet , Dodge , Ford and IKA powered the vehicles. For an engine a power of 215  HP from 3770 cm³ displacement is handed down. The vehicle had a wheelbase of 282 cm and a width of 184 cm. A source cites a production period from 1970 to 1971 and a number of seven to ten vehicles. Another source states that the model was introduced in 1969, was still available in 1972, and a total of 40 vehicles were made.

In 1971 the Tulietta appeared on the chassis of the Renault 4 . The first version was a coupé with a wide B-pillar without rear side windows. The second version, the Tulietta GT , had narrow B- and C-pillars and a side window in between. There was also a convertible called the Tulietta Convertiblé , a hatchback Tulietta Rural station wagon and a pickup truck . The four-cylinder engine developed 40 hp from a displacement of 1020 cm³. Other engines with 850 cc, 1300 cc and 1400 cc displacement were also available. One source states that around 40 vehicles were made.

The Taunus TC from 1977 was a modification of the Ford Taunus as a coupé.

The Spiaggia 1985 was a beach wagon on Renault basis.

Commercial vehicles have been produced since 2015 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Crespi.
  2. ↑ a b c George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1627. (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d e Coche Argentino (Spanish, accessed August 27, 2016)
  4. ^ D'Auto (Dutch, accessed August 27, 2016)
  5. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed on August 27, 2016)
  6. ↑ autohistorica.com on the Tulia GT (Spanish, accessed on August 27, 2016)
  7. ↑ autohistorica.com on the Tulieta GT (Spanish, accessed on August 27, 2016)
  8. ↑ autohistorica.com on Spiaggia (Spanish, accessed on August 27, 2016)