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We Owe A Debt Of Gratitude To Early Luxury Automotive Products

You may well have noticed gorgeous, massiveproduction straight eight engine, and was
cars in classic movies. What happened tolater joined, then replaced by the Tipo 8A.
these car makers? Were they innovators orCustomers purchased a chassis and ordered
just producers of boats or otherwhatever body tickled their fancy from a
monstrosities of little innovative value?coachbuilder. The well known high end
Sort of like big tank S.U.V. trucks in thesecoachbuilder of the time Sala and Castanga
days of $ 3 a gallon gasoline. Indeed you mayaccounted for most of them. Others built to
have spotted such cars as the Italian madethe  likes  of  Fleetwood  and  Barker.
Isotta Fraschine in classic movies such as
the movie "Sunset Boulevard" which starredOne of the lighter and more powerful Super
Gloria Swanson. These cars were not only theSpinto versions of the *A finished sixth in
highest end luxury models of their days butthe first Mille Miglia , driven by none other
they introduced early on many advancedthan Count Maggi , one of the 1000 -mile road
features into cars as well as moving aheadrace founders and originators. He was
and reinforcing standards of reliability andaccompanied by Bindo Maserati. Bindo and his
durability of motor vehicles. The thin edgebrother Alfieri were then working for Isota
of the wedge even then. Back in 1929 when theFraschini as testers. Most of the parts for
Tippo 8A primo motor car was delivered to itsthe first Masaerati cars were made at
first waiting owners , the automotive nameIsotta's  factory  on Via Monterosa in Milan.
and models if Isoto Fraschini were held in
the same breath , prestige and level as thoseLaunched in April 1931, the Tipo 8B is
of Rolls-Royce and Hispano-Suiza. The storygenerally considered as Isotto Fraschini's
starts in Milan, Italy thirty years earlierfinest automobile product. It offered more
when Cesare Isotta and Vincenzio Fraschinoperformance than its predecessor. About 950
joined forces and went into the "newfangled"of these fine motor vehicles were
car  business.manufactured and sold. The Tipo 8B Automobile
product line encountered strong opposition
At that time Italy was a poor country, theyfrom the likes of Rolls-Royce, Hispano and
soon realized that with their limited carBugatti. By the mid nineteen thirties the
market, and luxury car market the need,Isotta Frascnini car production system and
indeed the necessity to export theirenterprise was out of the automobile
products. The enterprising partners firstbusiness. It made a short comeback after the
shipped a car to the United Sates in 1902 andtime period approximately of the post Second
established the Isotta Import Company in NewWorld War II period when the Tipo 8C
York just five years later. In 1908, IsottaMonterosa appeared to a fanfare of postwar
won Sicily's super tough Targea Florio racetrumpets. The Post World War II Tipo 8C
and notched up more than several importantMonterosa was a most interesting concept car
auto races in America. Two years later, theof its time period - a very big car with a
Italians launched the mighty KM model, whichV-8 engine its tail. Rather unbelievably, or
sported 10.6 liter, four cylinder, andperhaps
sixteen valve engine. It would storm along at
90 mph at a time when few aircraft couldWe owe a debit of gratitude to these early
achieve  that  in  flight.luxury automobile innovators and producers in
that what we take today for automotive
After World War I, Isotta Fraschini decidedvehicle features , engineering as well as
to concentrate on the lucrative andreliability started early on with the
prestigious luxury end of the automotiveexpectations of purchasers of these luxury
market. The 5.9 liter Tipo 8 arrived in 1909automobile products.
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