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We Owe A Debt Of Gratitude To Early Luxury Automotive Products

You may well have noticed gorgeous,first series production straight eight
massive cars in classic movies. Whatengine, and was later joined, then
happened to these car makers? Were theyreplaced by the Tipo 8A. Customers
innovators or just producers of boats orpurchased a chassis and ordered whatever
other monstrosities of little innovativebody tickled their fancy from a
value? Sort of like big tank S.U.V.coachbuilder. The well known high end
trucks in these days of $ 3 a galloncoachbuilder of the time Sala and
gasoline. Indeed you may have spottedCastanga accounted for most of them.
such cars as the Italian made IsottaOthers built to the likes of Fleetwood
Fraschine in classic movies such as theand Barker.
movie "Sunset Boulevard" which starredOne of the lighter and more powerful
Gloria Swanson. These cars were not onlySuper Spinto versions of the *A finished
the highest end luxury models of theirsixth in the first Mille Miglia , driven
days but they introduced early on manyby none other than Count Maggi , one of
advanced features into cars as well asthe 1000 -mile road race founders and
moving ahead and reinforcing standardsoriginators. He was accompanied by Bindo
of reliability and durability of motorMaserati. Bindo and his brother Alfieri
vehicles. The thin edge of the wedgewere then working for Isota Fraschini as
even then. Back in 1929 when the Tippotesters. Most of the parts for the first
8A primo motor car was delivered to itsMasaerati cars were made at Isotta's
first waiting owners , the automotivefactory on Via Monterosa in Milan.
name and models if Isoto Fraschini wereLaunched in April 1931, the Tipo 8B is
held in the same breath , prestige andgenerally considered as Isotto
level as those of Rolls-Royce andFraschini's finest automobile product.
Hispano-Suiza. The story starts inIt offered more performance than its
Milan, Italy thirty years earlier whenpredecessor. About 950 of these fine
Cesare Isotta and Vincenzio Fraschinomotor vehicles were manufactured and
joined forces and went into thesold. The Tipo 8B Automobile product
"newfangled" car business.line encountered strong opposition from
At that time Italy was a poor country,the likes of Rolls-Royce, Hispano and
they soon realized that with theirBugatti. By the mid nineteen thirties
limited car market, and luxury carthe Isotta Frascnini car production
market the need, indeed the necessity tosystem and enterprise was out of the
export their products. The enterprisingautomobile business. It made a short
partners first shipped a car to thecomeback after the time period
United Sates in 1902 and established theapproximately of the post Second World
Isotta Import Company in New York justWar II period when the Tipo 8C Monterosa
five years later. In 1908, Isotta wonappeared to a fanfare of postwar
Sicily's super tough Targea Florio racetrumpets. The Post World War II Tipo 8C
and notched up more than severalMonterosa was a most interesting concept
important auto races in America. Twocar of its time period - a very big car
years later, the Italians launched thewith a V-8 engine its tail. Rather
mighty KM model, which sported 10.6unbelievably, or perhaps
liter, four cylinder, and sixteen valveWe owe a debit of gratitude to these
engine. It would storm along at 90 mphearly luxury automobile innovators and
at a time when few aircraft couldproducers in that what we take today for
achieve that in flight.automotive vehicle features ,
After World War I, Isotta Fraschiniengineering as well as reliability
decided to concentrate on the lucrativestarted early on with the expectations
and prestigious luxury end of theof purchasers of these luxury automobile
automotive market. The 5.9 liter Tipo 8products.
arrived in 1909 - powered by the world's



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