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alcool_h
10-11-2003, 02:11 PM
The best brazilian GT ever

year: 1965-67
engine: Chevrolet 6c, 4300cc. 171cv din @ 4800rpm
chassis: monocoque
weight: 1.180kg
cw: 0,29
0-100Km/h 10,5s
220Km/h
designed by Rigoberto Soler

http://www2.uol.com.br/bestcars/carros/outros/brasinca-4200gt-2.jpg

http://www2.uol.com.br/bestcars/carros/outros/uirapuru-chassi.jpg

http://www2.uol.com.br/bestcars/carros/outros/uirapuru-65-2.jpg

henk4
10-13-2003, 12:55 PM
are you sure this is a monocoque? Looks like a rolling chassis to me. But apart from that, who many were made? and was it really inspired by the Avanti?

alcool_h
10-14-2003, 09:08 AM
Is monocoque, like Lotus Elise. Hollow beams formed by stamped steel plates.

The chassis weighs 120Kg, has a good resistence. Already a convertible version was foreseen, without the necessity of structural reinforcements.

They had made about 80 cars, most destroyed in accidents, favours to the good engine and the bad brake.

But never nobody died in these accidents, the car is very safe.

henk4
10-14-2003, 09:18 AM
Originally posted by alcool_h
Is monocoque, like Lotus Elise. Hollow beams formed by stamped steel plates.

The chassis weighs 120Kg, has a good resistence. Already a convertible version was foreseen, without the necessity of structural reinforcements.

They had made about 80 cars, most destroyed in accidents, favours to the good engine and the bad brake.

But never nobody died in these accidents, the car is very safe.

I think the Elise actually has a space frame, similar to this one. Anyway, with all those accidents was there also an element of optimistic/poor driving involved?
How many are left?

kylawills
11-21-2011, 11:02 PM
That's really amazing info. Alcool_h! and amazing car...thanks

Commodore GS/E
11-24-2011, 07:25 PM
FINALLY I TRIUMPH
Had this guy not bumped this thread, I would have never found out that somebody posted anything about this car. I've been searching for information about it for quite some time now, but haven't found anything (the fact that I'm completely incompetent at using UCP's achives doesn't help much either -___-). Most sites that relate to it are in portugese obviously (which I don't understand, sadly). What I'd need now is a high-res photo of the car as I've never seen a decent one yet (I got the one in the OP too, but that isn't exactly high-res). Can anybody help?

csl177
11-24-2011, 08:15 PM
Can't help with hi-res images, but you can use a translator: Google Translate (http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fbestcars.uol.com.br%2Fclassicos%2Fb rasinca-1.htm&act=url) :)

There quite a bit of info on this short-lived automobile. Even a comparo with the Jensen Intercepter on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLYnmtMJMi4

Commodore GS/E
11-27-2011, 06:16 AM
thanks ;)

Dons63ApolloGT
02-14-2013, 09:34 PM
It resembles the Jensen Intersepter. If I saw one on the street I would think it was a Jensen.
Thanks

jcp123
03-10-2013, 09:47 AM
Neat little car. I can see both Jensen and Avanti in that one. That big Chevy straight six would be quite a bit of motor for that car. Incidentally there's a small but dedicated crowd of folks dedicated to performance enhancements of the old American I6's, you could probably perk it up a decent bit. I don't know what kind of brakes it is using, but depending on the suspension and braking setup, that might be able to be improved upon, too.