1956 OSCA MT4 TN 1500 [1178]

1956 OSCA MT4 TN 1500 [1178] in Shelby American, Documentary, 2019

Class: Cars, Racecar — Model origin:

Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene

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dsl ◊ 2020-06-17 03:08	Ferrari or Maserati or SomethingElseItalian .....
Exiv96 ◊ 2020-06-24 19:53	Found it. https://www.velocetoday.com/shelby-drives-an-osca/ https://www.conceptcarz.com/profile/984,13344/1956-osca-mt4-tn.aspx (with some close-up shots that show OSCA was written in all caps)
skywatcher68 ◊ 2020-06-24 21:15	Per Hemmings: Quote Maserati continued to race successfully, which eventually won it the undivided attention of a wealthy Italian industrialist. His name was Commendatore Adolfo Orsi, who was most interested in buying the brothers' highly profitable spark plug business, but realized the racing cars would create a publicity boom for the rest of his operating units. In 1938, Orsi purchased the firm and moved it to Modena. He also kept Bindo, Ernesto and Ettore on a 10-year retainer, although none of them held direct control over racing. Under Orsi, Maserati was progressively moving toward producing road cars, something that held zero interest for the brothers. When their contract was up in 1947, they returned to their native Bologna and started over. With Bindo in charge of sales and finance, Ernesto as chief designer and Ettore as head fabricator and machinist, the Maseratis got back into racing by forming Officina Specializzatta Construzione Automobili, since their deal with Orsi barred them from putting their own names on another car after they left his employ. Since the new company's full name was a mouthful of capellini, it was shortened, then and today, to the acronym of OSCA. For the uninitiated, that's pronounced sort of like the fastidious Tony Randall's plaintive chiding of the slovenly Jack Klugman on The Odd Couple: "OSCA, OSCA, OSCA!" OSCAs were never produced in large numbers, but collectively, they were at the pinnacle in the world of small-displacement, four-cylinder racing cars that became wildly popular in Europe as it recovered from World War II, a throwback to the likewise popular, pre-war voiturette races. The first racing OSCA--there was no other type--was an 1,100cc roadster built on a tubular chassis, with independent front suspension, and weighing a feathery 900 pounds. Engine displacements ranged from 750cc to 1,500cc to a 2,000cc straight-six, all with twin-cam heads. Unlike other producers of small-displacement performance cars such as Abarth and Nardi, the Maseratis didn't settle for modifying production cars such as Fiats or Alfa Romeos. From the chassis up, OSCAs were all their own.

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dsl

◊ 2020-06-17 03:08

Ferrari or Maserati or SomethingElseItalian .....

Exiv96

◊ 2020-06-24 19:53

Found it.

https://www.velocetoday.com/shelby-drives-an-osca/
https://www.conceptcarz.com/profile/984,13344/1956-osca-mt4-tn.aspx

(with some close-up shots that show OSCA was written in all caps)

skywatcher68

◊ 2020-06-24 21:15

Per Hemmings:

Quote Maserati continued to race successfully, which eventually won it the undivided attention of a wealthy Italian industrialist.

His name was Commendatore Adolfo Orsi, who was most interested in buying the brothers' highly profitable spark plug business, but realized the racing cars would create a publicity boom for the rest of his operating units. In 1938, Orsi purchased the firm and moved it to Modena. He also kept Bindo, Ernesto and Ettore on a 10-year retainer, although none of them held direct control over racing. Under Orsi, Maserati was progressively moving toward producing road cars, something that held zero interest for the brothers. When their contract was up in 1947, they returned to their native Bologna and started over.

With Bindo in charge of sales and finance, Ernesto as chief designer and Ettore as head fabricator and machinist, the Maseratis got back into racing by forming Officina Specializzatta Construzione Automobili, since their deal with Orsi barred them from putting their own names on another car after they left his employ. Since the new company's full name was a mouthful of capellini, it was shortened, then and today, to the acronym of OSCA. For the uninitiated, that's pronounced sort of like the fastidious Tony Randall's plaintive chiding of the slovenly Jack Klugman on The Odd Couple: "OSCA, OSCA, OSCA!"

OSCAs were never produced in large numbers, but collectively, they were at the pinnacle in the world of small-displacement, four-cylinder racing cars that became wildly popular in Europe as it recovered from World War II, a throwback to the likewise popular, pre-war voiturette races. The first racing OSCA--there was no other type--was an 1,100cc roadster built on a tubular chassis, with independent front suspension, and weighing a feathery 900 pounds. Engine displacements ranged from 750cc to 1,500cc to a 2,000cc straight-six, all with twin-cam heads. Unlike other producers of small-displacement performance cars such as Abarth and Nardi, the Maseratis didn't settle for modifying production cars such as Fiats or Alfa Romeos. From the chassis up, OSCAs were all their own.

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