Rare Car : Ford OSI

In the UK at least the Taunus 20M is a rare enough car, however if you add to that some smooth Italian styling and limited production, you've got the recipe for a very nice rare car!

The Ford OSI 20 M TS Coupe, to give its full name, is the design work of Sergio Sartorelli coupled with the engineering underpinnings of the Ford Taunus 20M, a great car in its own right.  Whilst the Turin based OSI (Industriali Officina Stampaggi) as a company had produced designs for Alfa Romeo, Fiat and Innocenti, they had always been in very limited numbers, the Ford OSI however saw a move into higher production figures.  We're not talking great number though, just 2,220 units were produced between 1967 and 1968.  Of those that were produced only around 200 have survived.

The car came in 2 litre V6 and 2.3 litre V6 varieties, just as in the standard production model, performance was around the same as the standard model as well.  There was an attempted to improve the acceleration by modifying the rear axle, but that was counteracted by the larger wheels and rolling radius.

A single convertible car was made and is still around today, the rarest of this rare car.  Pictures and (German) details of this car can be found here.

It really is a very attractive European coupe, German engineering coupled with attractive Italian styling, what more could you need in life?

More information can be found here (OSI site) and the owners club website is here.