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Neckar St Trop Spider

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aeronca65t

aeronca65t

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Never saw or heard of one of these before.
Sorry, I can't translate the text.

Kind of interesting.

https://www.osicar.de/neckar_st_trop_spider.html


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neat! I've never heard of it either.
 
Cool looking little car, I've also never heard of it.
 
Penin Farina-esque lines, very nicely desinged.

I want one. What's the scoop? What drivetrain, etc.??? :confuse:
 
The manufacturer (OSI) was a Ghia supplier specializing in large stampings who then started making bodies on their own. I'd never heard of this model. The air outlets on the front fenders remind me of those on the ASA 1000 but I guess there's no connection.

Certainly a dressed-up Fiat - which I think is not a bad thing at all.
 
If this bunch of obscure car eggheads has never heard of it, I'd hate to try and find parts for one. (I really meant that egghead comment as a compliment)
 
Banjo said:
If this bunch of obscure car eggheads
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I'd say that's an accurate comment.....some of us are scrambled, some are over easy, some are sunny side up, some are hard boiled, etc..........
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WOW... Looks like a TR-6 slipped under th' tent flaps and had his way with a Fiat 124! :smirk:

Nope, never saw that'n before. I plead 'scrambled'. :laugh:
 
here's a short summary of the cars history:
OSI was founded in 1960 as a joint venture of Ghia and Fergat, in order to have production capacity for Ghia's small series cars, as Ghia itself was not able to produce cars in reasonable numbers. In the first years OSI also produced cars for Fiat and Innocenti. After Segre's death in 1963 OSI was sold completely to Fergat and a design department was added. In autumn 1963 OSI presented it's first model to be sold under the genuine brand "OSI". It was the 1200 OSI Spider, designed by Giovanni Michelotti on the shortened wheelbase of the Fiat 1100D Berlina. This car was offered in Italy only. One year later the french Fiat/Neckar dealer Andrè Chardonnet convinced OSI to sell the car also in the rest of Europe. In order to do so, they labled the car as a Neckar model and called it Neckar St Trop.
So it is only some kind of "badge engineering", as the Neckar St Trop Spider and the 1200 OSI Spider are basically the same car. A Coupè version was also presented in 1964.


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Any more questions on that car? Just ask me.

best regards
Oliver
www.osicar.de
 
aeronca65t said:
Great info. Thanks and welcome to British Car Forum!
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INDEED!!

Quite a bit of esoteric info there. We don't get enough Continental history!
 
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