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343:. Schlosser and his financial backers disagreed about how the car would be sold. The financiers wanted to offer the Asardo as a partially completed car that allowed the buyer to choose their engine while Schlosser insisted that the car be sold complete with the Alfa engine. They parted ways over the difference and Schlosser went to Europe in search of alternate financing.
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so that its final displacement was 1,489 cc (90.9 cu in). The Asardo's engine had a compression ratio of 11.5:1 and was equipped with two two-barrel Weber 40mm DCOE3 carburetors. Power output for the engine was estimated to have been 100.7 kW (135 hp) at 6800 rpm. Power went
247:"Asardo" is an acronym for "American Special Automotive Research and Design Organization". The company's founder and chief designer was mechanical engineer Helmut Schlosser, an Austrian who had emigrated to the United States. In the late 1950s he was managing a machine shop in
370:. Schlosser redesigned the chassis to make room for the new engine but kept the same body. The 3,524 cc (215.0 cu in) Buick engine and a Corvette transmission were installed in the car. Schlosser had designed an
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sports racer and that the car could be viewed as the first unofficial TZ prototype. Many in the motoring press and Alfa enthusiast community reacted with skepticism, pointing to significant differences between the cars.
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Vilardi raced the car in 1959 and was able to post a third place in the
Montgomery preliminary on August 8 and a fourth place at the Lime Rock preliminary on October 17. After this Kolb made some track appearances.
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The Asardo debuted at the 1959 New York auto show. It was listed at a suggested price of US$ 5875.00 and was to be built at a rate of two cars per month in a new production facility in
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system for the rear of the car but did not have the opportunity to install it, so the Alfa differential remained. The revised Asardo was renamed the 3500 GM-S.
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McDonough, Ed (October 2003). "Alfa Romeo TZ Racing
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631:"Complete Archive of Asardo"
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