Not bad for a racer without proffesional Mercedes-Benz support. Those cars are extremely rare nowadays. Bernard Boyer, Tico Martini, Gianfranco Palazzoli, Paolo Pavanello, Gianfranco Pederzani, John Surtees. In 1990 Monteverdi started a Formula One comeback, after founding the Monteverdi-Onyx-Team.
Prior to the death of Swiss racing driver and automobile producer Peter Monteverdi in 1998, he assembled an incredible legacy of sporting coupés, limousines, off-road vehicles, and racing cars. Vevey“-agricultural machine factory. This was their last race, with the team folding before the Hungarian Grand Prix.
The car had a proper, almost Italian look, and it sold well, in Europe and the Middle East. The one-man-shop now became an enterprise with many employees and work on a new car project continued.
During the late 1950s and early '60s, Peter Monteverdi built, sold, and raced a number of "specials" called MBM, while at the same time developing the motor vehicle repair business founded by his father into a major dealership handling Ferrari, BMW, and Lancia brands. Peter Monteverdi was born in Binningen, where his father owned a small car repair shop, on June 7th, 1934. Nurburgring (D): Round 3, World Sports Car Championship 44 laps of a 14.174 mile/22.810 km circuit - 623.634 miles/1003.640 kms Weather: intermittent rain. At the Frankfurt car show in fall 1967, the newly presented Monteverdi "high speed“ became an instant success.
One of them was presented as Monteverdi 375/L; the other one stayed for some years at Frua before, in 1971, it was slightly modified and sold to AC, where it was presented as a one-off AC 428. The front got a massive chrome grille with four round headlamps, looking like an Alfa Romeo Alfetta (third series), while the rear lamps were provided by a Peugeot (505 sedan). Monteverdi became Ferrari's youngest importer in 1957 and became a specialist not only for them, but in time BMW, Lancia and Bentley.
Following his high school education, Peter Monteverdi worked as a volunteer in the Soon, Monteverdi also offered a large sedan called 375/4, and about 30 were built. After having success in Swiss hill climbs, Monteverdi entered the MBM in the 1961 Solitude Grand Prix.
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While the design work was carried out by Monteverdi, the actual work took place at Fissore's factory in Savigliano.
Monteverdi used a mechanically unchanged International Harvester Scout, changed the grill, and tuned up the interior.
By that time, Monteverdi had started the mass production of a new kind of car, well-equipped luxurious off-road station wagons.
Former racer and car builder, whose main profession was as a car dealer.
A GT and another sportscar were added to MBM‘s production and sold to enthusiasts throughout the world.
The rest - windows, doors and mechanical parts - remained unchanged.
Finally, Monteverdi also made a station wagon based on a Plymouth. It was a Plymouth Volaré with slightly changed bodywork. In 1959 he drove numerous times with a Renault Gordini, a Lotus Formula-2 monoposto and a Mercedes 300 SLR, driving to the checkered flag several times.As of 1960 Peter Monteverdi only raced cars of his own construction, several Formula-Junior monoposti designated as MBM for Monteverdi Binningen Motors as well as with Switzerland's first Formula-1 car. Once again, it was necessary to enlarge the shop and the production of new cars was housed in the new factory. The existing shop was too small to house the repair shop and the construction part of the business and therefore had to be razed for a new building. In 1982 Monteverdi car production was shut down. The Monteverdi firm then became specialist in GT cars and then in later years, jeeps and also vehicles for the Swiss Army. It was designer,constructor,driver,even jet pilot! The factory was converted into a museum, the Monteverdi Car Collection, which opened in 1985.
The founder - auto business guru Peter Monteverdi is the brand’s founder and auto industry’s magnate.