Author Topic: Solved - NEH 4325: Cordoban 124 Sport by Antonio Madueno / Selex  (Read 1283 times)

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Re: NEH 4325
« Reply #25 on: November 15, 2015, 07:06:13 AM »
Ah, ok, so it was built by "Selex"

That's not the name I have.
It was built by a coachbuilder; who?
I'll keep it locked for you to have another go.
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Re: NEH 4325
« Reply #26 on: November 15, 2015, 03:46:05 PM »
I don´t know, maybe you were looking for the name of the designer, Jaume Xifré. If not please unlock.

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Re: NEH 4325
« Reply #27 on: November 15, 2015, 04:52:18 PM »
As far as I know, the Cordobán was shown at the 1969 Barcelona Show by a company called Autotécnica, based in Madrid.
However, Antonio Madueño is indeed the owner of the company, and therefore the author of the car, so basically CrazyAutopuzzler is right.

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Re: NEH 4325
« Reply #28 on: November 16, 2015, 05:22:00 AM »
No-one has mentioned the name I'm looking for yet.
There was a feature in a magazine about who I'm looking for and this car was credited as being made by him.
The answer is not so difficult to find..
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Re: NEH 4325
« Reply #29 on: November 16, 2015, 05:26:30 AM »
My source, to be transparent, is the book "Los Seat 124 & 1430" by Pablo Gimeno Valledor, that I'm considering a good source also for "Fiat 124 e 125 fuoriserie", that I'm still writing. So I'm curious to see what will come out from this puzzle.  ;)

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Re: NEH 4325
« Reply #30 on: November 16, 2015, 07:09:06 AM »

Are you looking for the company Fibrapol, that made the body panels?
Or maybe Miquel Molons, founder of Selex?

In any case I also think CrazyAutopuzzler should get the point, because my info says the car was the fruit of a collaboration between Autotécnica (Madueño's company) and Selex (where Xifré was lead designer, and supervisor of this project) over a SEAT chassis. Selex subcontracted Fibrapol to make the fibre panels. Madueño's intention was to sell the car in small numbers, but that never came to pass.
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Re: NEH 4325
« Reply #31 on: November 16, 2015, 07:57:17 AM »
I've been looking into this but I'm afraid my inability to speak Spanish has led me up the garden path..
The name I was looking for was Francisco Ejarque, as I understand that his coachworks built this car, but clearly that is not right.  The article about the Cordoban was next to one about Ejarque and I put 2 and 2 together and came up with something other than 4...

So I will accept the CrazyAutopuzzler's answer, give him a point and move it to solved.

Sorry for the confusion.
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