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Monday, February 3, 2020

Car You've Never Heard Of (CYNHO) -- 1967 OSI Silver Fox Concept prototype

The OSI Silver Fox concept prototype from 1967 is one of the most uniquely shaped cars ever.  OSI was a small custom coachbuilding company that was founded in 1960, but instead of building showroom cars, like Pininfarina, Bertone, or Italdesign, they made mostly production cars, the most famous of which is the OSI-Ford 20M TS (pictured below).  The Silver Fox was different, though.
          It was built to compete in the 1968 Le Mans 24 hours series, but never got to.  Instead, OSI went out of business at the very beginning of 1968, never to race, or for that matter even design, any cars ever again.  The Silver Fox was a revolutionary design, with double fuselages, and three wings in between them, to stabilize the car and reduce drag.  It was powered by a 1.0L 1000cc Alpine 4-cylinder engine that produced power.  I'm not saying how much because I don't know, but the 1967 Alpine A110 using the same engine produced 66hp, so I'm guessing the Silver Fox had about that much, maybe a little more.  Although the Silver Fox never succeeded in race or production, the one existing prototype was pushed to it's top speed, which was recorded as being 155mph, just a few mph below the fastest cars of that era.


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