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AutoPuzzles Today => Features, Stories and Photos => Featured Imagery => Topic started by: Oguerrerob on June 05, 2018, 03:10:40 AM
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I have been recruiting pictures everywhere, so... This is all about cars in Venezuela.
(Contributions are welcome)
Gran Premio de Venezuela (Grand Prix)
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More race cars
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and more
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private built cars
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Kit cars
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Venezuela 1950's and 60's
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Car design
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More car designs
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Venezuelan versions of the Austin Mini: Mini Cord
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Maybe a bit off-topic:
this monument with a crashed car was ercected in Caracas in 1928 to remind everybody to drive decently...
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Great! The idea is to recollect all the Venezuelan automobilia possible. Nothing is off-topic. Thanks
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Around 1950's some oil petroleum company executive crashed his car at the El Tigre (Anzoategui) crossroads and the authorities took the car and placed it over a platform and wrote 'VEA' (watch). It was there for almost 40 years, and it became calling 'Vea crossroads'
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Other traffic warnings:
What a fuck of curve, people are killed by reckless
Cadillac Hearse with a coffin and skeleton and a bottle of beer at watch control traffic road
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Cheapest cars program:
VW Beetle and Renault 4
"Guido Steinvorth (VW Venezuela's owner) takes part in the popular car project launched by the government of President Rafael Caldera (1969-1974). It qualifies, along with the 'Renoleta' Renault, popularly called 'Haydeé' (minister of economy's name) , with the VW which, in its simplest version, received the official name 'Negro Primero' (Independence hero), from which many will be sold (Bs. 8,000) eight thousand bolívares ($ 1,800 approx). It was the beetle itself simplified to the maximum to achieve an unbeatable price for sale to the public. They are still on the road!"
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1980's Isuzu Trooper was rebadged as Caribe 4-4-2
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Toyota renamed almost all models:
Land Cruiser Roraima (Venezuela's mountain)
Land Cruiser Autana (Venezuela's mountain)
Land Cruiser Meru (Prado) 2 doors (Venezuela's waterfall)
Toyota Hilux Kavak (Venezuela's national park cave)
Toyota Land Cruiser Machito 2 doors (Male attitude)
Toyota Land Cruiser Samurai (an ad called this SUV a Samurai's dream, it became the common name)
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In recent years Iran and Venezuela governments signed a joint venture to built Iran Khodro in Venezuela. Venirauto.
Saipa 141 became Turpial (venezuelan's bird) and Samand, Centauro.
As the years went passing by, the bureaucratics and corruption, only few people could get one of those, the rest remain in the assembly plants parking lots
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The same was with Chinese government joint venture to build Chery cars
Chery A3 became Chery Orinoco (biggest river in Venezuela)
Chery J1 became Chery Arauca (borderline with Colombia).
The same reason that Venirauto cars, Chery was hard to find
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Tiuna, It's a Light 4 wheel drive military vehicles built by the government offices CAVIM (Compañía Anónima Venezolana de Industrias Militares) and CENARECA (Centro Nacional de Repotenciación de Vehículos Pesados), using Ford and GM engines. Design by General de Brigada Aaron Katz. Included three civilian purposed (never seen)
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Cool - didn´t se most of them ever before.
Are those Chery cars just rotting away there?
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The Chinese and the Iranian cars are for the 'connected' people, and they resale them for 3 or more of their value, so they're so few in the streets, and a lot of them rotten in parking lots.
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Armoured vehicles made in Venezuela:
Tortuga Tank at Puerto Cabello Naval Arsenal Ford 1934 6×4 Commercial Truck Chassis (12 built) by Tomas Pacanins
Carro Blindado HO 1954 (no much info)
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Very peculiar Ferrari that raced in Venezuela
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Tranvías Eléctricos de Caracas.
First series were homebuilt using GM bus chassis. Electric buses without rails
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Tranvías Eléctricos de Caracas
Trams with rails since 1920's. Tram system (with and without rails) was stopped in 1947
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Tall's Toy (Pedal Car) Rolls Royce by Andreas Petitjean for Ruedas Doradas Ruedorca 2005 Venezuela.
Article appeared in the Newspaper El Universal's Sunday Magazine Estampas (29-05-2005)
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As many things announced by Goverment institutions, kept in just promises. This car was never produced.
"Bauxicar", as the car is called, has a gasoline engine and an innovative solar panel for electric assistance. It has four speeds, radio-player and air conditioning, as well as barbecue for cargo and trunk.
The president of Bauxilum, indicated that this vehicle could be manufactured from 2005 in Ciudad Guayana and its cost would not exceed 15 million bolivars in its most equipped version.
"Bauxicar" will be the smallest car manufactured in Latin America, since it is 45 centimeters less in length than any other model.
The model was designed by Alcindo Agreda Pita, who for 30 years has worked on the design of aluminum vessels and had the idea of presenting a vehicle made in Bolívar with Venezuelan aluminum and other materials, which could be used on all roads in the country.
In this regard, Amaro said that CVG-Bauxilum will support the project as part of the effort to comply with the policy of import substitution and productive diversification of the National Government, in which the Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana and its different companies in the sector are immersed Steel, iron and aluminum.
In addition to the "street" version, there could be a variant of the "Bauxicar", in the form of a mini-car, which would be used used in the industrial plants of the country for the provision of internal services, personnel transport, tools and materials.
"This mini-car would reduce costs by replacing conventional high-cost trucks with these economic transports, which may be called" Bauxi-Services, "he said.
For its part, the creator of the new vehicle, Alcindo Agreda, said that following the loss of its shipyard during the tragedy of the Vargas state, in 1999, he decided to venture into the automotive sector with a small and economical vehicle, but capable of dragging loads and serving in complicated environments, such as industrial plants.
"By using aluminum as the main material, Bauxicar becomes resistant to exposure to chemicals and temperatures that would affect other vehicles of its kind," he explained.
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Looking thorugh past AP puzzles, I see a couple of Venezuelan specials that were not posted by Oguerrerob:
1- Manaure-Carusa special by Alberto Salas, Maracay, 1966 - https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2012-41/sac326manaure-carusa-special-by-alberto-salas-from-venezuela-1966/
2- AC Ace Bristol chassis BEX-148, modified by Karl Pentz for Oscar Lupi, 1956 (misidentified in the thread header) - https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2013-42/solved-djetset-638-cadv-ac-ace-(from-venezula)/
Pictures below
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Great. Thanks!!
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There is a photo of Ettore Chimeri standing next to some 250 GT TdF. The caption seems to mention the Copa Ciudad de Valencia, but none of cars with that appearance are known to have been in Venezuela around that time. Anyone have any idea to the identity of that car?
https://alchetron.com/Ettore-Chimeri
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Thanks. I never heard nothing about him.
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Chimeri drove #1037 for Julio Pola from time to time in that period.
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Thanks for responding. But, 1037 GT had a later body style from new and wasn’t built at the time of the Premio Cuidad di Valencia in May 1958?
The closest I can get based on features would be 0619 GT (later renumbered to 0805 GT). It does have the same details as when raced in the Tour de France in 1957, notably the full width bug deflector on the hood.
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Fiat car dealer Caracas 1950's
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Fiat Miss Italia Caracas 1950's
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Custom Limo Caracas
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fantastic pictures of Fiat dealer!