BLOG DO CAMARO: outubro 2012

terça-feira, 30 de outubro de 2012

CAMARO 68 "STATE FARM"

Carro construído para treinamento dos corretores, demonstrando o impacto das alterações nas taxas de seguro e no valor do veículo.....matéria gentilmente enviada pelo Carlos Sheidecker do blog www.corvettebrasil.blogspot.com

quinta-feira, 25 de outubro de 2012

SIMPLEX CRANE 1915

Como se pode notar em 1915 geniais engenheiros americanos já se utilizavam da mais bonita combinação de cores até hoje produzida....e ainda hj tem seus muitos seguidores...

Mais sobre a empresa: The Smith and Mabley Manufacturing Co. of New York City was founded by Carleton Raymond Mabley (1878-1963) and his brother-in-law Albert Proctor Smith to import European cars for sale in America. They built their first car in 1904, which was called the S&M Simplex, largely from imported Mercedes parts. The company went bankrupt in 1906 and in 1907 the firm's assets were absorbed into the Simplex Automobile Co. Herman Broesel, passionate about racing, purchased the company and redesigned the "Simplex" so it could reach speeds of 90 mph (140 km/h). The firm became Crane-Simplex after purchase of the Crane Motor Car Company of Bayonne, New Jersey, which had been founded by Henry Middleton Crane, in 1915. The Crane-Simplex Company was purchased in 1920 by the Mercer Automobile Company but by 1922 ownership had passed to Henry Crane, who then failed to realise an ambition to revive the marque