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Spatz, Victoria 1956-1959 - unconventional little tiny bird

Name: Victoria Spatz 1956
Brand: Victoria

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Created in 2012

Text:

Roger Gloor

Photos:

Bruno von Rotz

Stefan Fritschi

Darin Schnabel - Courtesy RM Auctions 2012

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Bruno von Rotz

Stefan Fritschi

Darin Schnabel - Courtesy RM Auctions 2012

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Spatz, 1956 (1 cyl., two-stroke mid-engine, air-cooled, 191 cm3, 10 hp)

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Victoria Spatz (1956) - the plastics pioneer had no chance against the growing competition

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Spatz 200 (1956) - in the vintage car corso at the Steckborn-Eichhölzli hill climb 2015

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Spatz 200 (1956) - at the Steckborn-Eichhölzli hill climb 2015

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Victoria 250 'Spatz' (1957) - in the transport center of the Deutsches Museum

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B.A.G. Spatz (1956) - offered at the auction of the Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum by RM Auction on February 15 and 16, 2013

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There were around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of them have disappeared. One of these lost brands is Spatz, later Victoria. Spatz was associated with cute little open cars in the shape of an egg. This design came from Egon Brütsch, who made these shell constructions his passion. Victoria took over in 1957 and after 859 Spatz, 729 Victoria were produced. In 1959, another company produced this carriage under the name Burgfalke.

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Egon Brütsch, racing driver and inventor from Stuttgart, created individual racing cars in the post-war period as a "freelance car designer" and in 1953 the Brütsch-Ford 1200, a convertible built by the coachbuilder Wendler. In 1954, he turned his attention to the use of glass-fiber reinforced plastic for small cars: The design with a lower and an upper GRP shell became his passion. His sometimes cute, sometimes bizarre, open, tiny egg-shaped cars with three or four wheels were produced by licensees in Germany and France under various names, usually only for a short time. The Swiss Belcar from 1955 with a powered rear single wheel, whose production was planned in Wollerau SZ, remained just a project. However, it gave rise to the 340 cm long four-wheeled Spatz, which Friedrich brought into the Bayerische Automobil-Werke (BAW) in 1956; he had founded this company together with Motorradwerk Victoria in Nuremberg.

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