Special Body Suggestion!

[PJGD]

There is an interesting website here: http://grupo7.com/microcoches/index.htm which catalogs a large number (many pages worth) of low cost and minimalist cars from long forgotten Spanish car constructors. Many of them are from the immediate post WW2 era when Franco's fascism isolated Spain from normal commercial relationships with the rest of Europe. Thus the Spanish had to construct their own cars, and this website documents many of the resulting automobiles.

Some of the cars shown are pretty scary, and some are not too bad, but the one that jumped out at me was this; the Tacho, shown here: http://grupo7.com/microcoches/tacho.htm ; no, not the last three photo's.

This design, perhaps with some minor tweaks, looked to me like a good candidate for the basis of a special body on a Jupiter chassis if anyone was contemplating building one. From the side view, I would say that their inspiration was the Jaguar XK120; what do you think? I am unable to read Spanish, but from what I can make out the Taco had a 648 cc boxer engine in the tail with 2 carburettors giving 18 HP. No doubt the Taco was the Spanish equivalent of a cad's motor car!

Philip Dingle

[Alastair Gregg]

I lay no claim to any linguistic abilities, but used Babel Fish to put in pigeon English what they are saying:-

In these microcars we found origin of PTV, since the brothers Antoni and Guillem Tachó owned at the end of the Forties a small repair shop of vehicles besides dedicating itself so in fashion to the installation of equipment of gasogene in those years and even to the manufacture of carburetors that commercialize with their name, then brother sayings developed to an elegant vehicle of three wheels in his first version and four in the later one with a back motor to boxer of two times and 648 cc air cooled and double 18 carburetor that rendered 4000 CB to rpm with measures of 3.90 ms of length and 2.20 ms of battle and a weight of 660 kg that was registered with the B-80347 number and it participated in several local races where he was known by " Ballena". Later the brothers CB with 3 speeds and reverse gear of lines less attractive Erased develop a small car not as sophisticated as the previous one equipped with a single cylinder motor of 247 cc of 13 than " Ballena" and that denominated " Coca" (perhaps by its similarity with a typical cake of certain zones of Aragon and Catalonia), this cochecillo with B-86282 matriculation also participated in numerous local tests and was the embryo of famous PTV 250.


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