Event Coverage Velocità - exhibition Turin, Italy-

Awesome. You get it...welcome to the Hamb.

 

One word: Stunning!

 

that alfa romeo wood buck is incredible

 

Thank you very much for posting these pictures!

 

Pipes!!!!!!

 

Fantastic! Naturally these cars are in a museum as they are priceless.

Well, I'm off to GoodWood Revival on the 15th...my 3rd straight year.

 

Hey, great pictures, thanks. Not sure I agree with Wikipedia about the first turbine car - what about the Rovers? http://www.rover.org.nz/pages/jet/jet5.htm

 

Some amazing pics.

 

wow!

 

Cappy, the pics are fantastic and I would probably save most of them, but the wife says I've already stressed out the hard drive! I've seen the Bugatti running at an AACA hillclimb and had a chance to look them over up close and personal. Lots of ideas there. Thanks,Cat

 

Capochi: questa è una delle poche volte in cui siamo fortunati e non dobbiamo andar dall' altra parte del mondo per vedere dal vivo delle auto incredibili!!!

 

Wow! Thankyou so much. I love that Alfa buck, it'd look great in my lounge room. Did some work on our Alfa today, unfortunately not a P3.

 

Hai ragione siamo afortunati e sono delle auto incredibili e con un valore storico molto importante, ma a me mi manca una Hot rod Reunion, mai visto una, ma sono una mia p***ione.

Ohh I don't know the Rovers , thanks for the info.


Thanks

 

Does anyone know of any webpages with more about the Itala 11 race car?

I've googled it, but not finding much about it other than it might be a 1924 Tipo (Fiat) 11

 

its good to see real early stuff from other countries, especially from my heritage.

 

thanks a ton Capochi..i love those 20's racers! that mefistofele realy kicked *** here in denmark in 1922!
-palle

 

Great stuff is right. Love the metal work on those car. Great thinking on the car with the spare in the wing/tail section. Thanks for the post.

 

Awesome!
Beautiful historic cars, displayed in a setting conducive to savouring their details. Great photo's.
Sensational, thankyou.

 

Can you educate me about the "Temperino". Never heard of it and I spent most of my life dinking with Italian cars.

 

Nice !

 

One of the greatest threads ever on the HAMB - and look - not a single negative comment - just total awe, as is appropriate.

This is living proof that the Italians are psychologically and genetically incapable of making a purely functional object. It has to be art, baby, art! Tante grazie Capochi.

 

CAPOCHI : Thanx A LOT for sharing Excellent Thread !!
Klaz

 

Simply Amazing!!!

 

The information about the Itala 11 in the web is very poor but in the site of the Museo dell auto you have the history about this car but the problem is that the language is Italian, the link is;

http://www.museoauto.it/mambo/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=74&Itemid=62

From 1924 the company decided to return to motor sport producing the Tipo 11 a very advanced car with front wheel drive, V-12 supercharged engine and all round independent suspension but the car never raced.

I hope that it serves to you.

Some of the history of Temperino;

Temperino produced motorbikes (starting in 1908) and then cars, the first prototype, a very small two-seater with a 350cc two-cylinder engine, also emerged in 1908. This entered production a couple of years later as the 8-10HP with a 800cc engine (still V2 air-cooled) and production continued through and after the first world war. Over 1500 examples were built until around 1924.
After the end of the war another model was produced, in collaboration with other companies who produced the engine, body (stabilimenti Farina), and mechanical parts as well as the ***embly process. Two models were available, the normal version (two-cylinder air-cooled 1010cc Vee engine with 20bhp) and a Sport model (two-cylinder in-line 1021cc with 25bhp). Various body styles such as torpedo, spyder and van were available.
The company changed its name to 'Societa Anonima Vetturette Temperino' in 1919 and its continuing success (helped also by publicity from success in motorsport) led to the establishment in 1922 of Temperino Motors Ltd, based in London and responsible for the licence production and sales of the cars in that market. Also in 1922 there arrived a new car, the GSM 7-14HP.
Despite the cars being exported from South America to Russia, Temperino could not survive the economic problems of the early 1920's, and in 1925 ceased producing cars. The UK company continued until 1940.
The family continued to develop and produce parts for production cars, mainly Fiats, for some years afterwards.






Thanks A Lot for the comments, Grazie!!!.

 

"From 1924 the company decided to return to motor sport producing the Tipo 11 a very advanced car with front wheel drive, V-12 supercharged engine and all round independent suspension but the car never raced."


What I wouldn't give to hear some of those cars running!

 

Incredible machines. The Disco Volante is beautiful. It's easy to see where the shape of the D Type Jags came from.

 

Exquisite Machinery & Fantastic Photographs - nice to see a different slant on things.
Great thread - Thank you!!

 

Thanks, will continue to show what happens here in Italy.

 

Normally a lurker here but this brought out my first post.

What a bunch of beautiful cars.

 

Beautiful Italian design! Thanks for posting.