The Obvio ! project started in 2001, with the innovative urban microsport cars designed by Anisio Campos, a famous Brasilian car designer, painter and sculptor - and one of the Obvio ! developers. For us, Anisio is a "live legend" of the brasilian car design, since the `50´s,when started his career designing and driving racing cars...
Anisio and the Obvio ! model 828, with Carlos de Carvalho, Fabio Oshiro and Saulo Tatizawa - part of the Obvio ! Design staff.
• He started his career as a industrial designer, graphic artist and sculptor. In the 60’s - as soon as the car industry starts in Brasil - he got involved in motor racings, looking for opportunities to show his talent to develop innovative chassis and body designs, developed by himself.
• In 1966, Anisio Campos created and developed the CARCARÁ. This streamlined car breaks the world record of speed: 212,9 Km/h, using a 1.0 Liter - 3 cylinders two-stroke DKW / AUTO-UNION power plant.
The Carcará streamlined record car- 1966: 212,9 KM/H with DKW 1.0 Liter, 3 cylinders two strokes motor !
• As a racing pilot, he had a famous and well recognized career at DACON Racing Team, as one of the pilots of the Karmann-Ghia / Porsche Dacon – four Karmann-Ghia in fiberglass bodyshell using motors, gearboxes and brakes from Porsche 904.
The Karmann-Ghia / Porsche - Dacon changed the rules in Brasilian racings - 1966
The final of some racings with the three cars of Escuderia Dacon: the 77 in first, the 7 in second and the 12 in third.
Everything was happyness and popularity to the four pilots of "Escuderia Dacon": José Carlos "Moco" Pace, Chiquinho Lameirão, Rodolpho Olival Costa and Emerson Fittipaldi.
• DACON was the biggest VW dealer and the exclusive distributor of Porsche cars in Brasil since 1968, based in São Paulo, and the other pilots are Emerson Fittipaldi (the “MOUSE”), Wilson Fittipaldi (the “BIG TIGER”) and Jose Carlos Pace (the “MOCO”) .
• Up to 1976 he worked as a Team-Manager to the famous Hollywood Cigars Team – an former team at the US CART – after their development of the Group 4 FIA in Brasil, using the AC G4, his own development of a competition chassis in tubular frame, Porsche or VW mid engine, fiberglass body.
The Karmann-Ghia/Porsche Dacon arriving at Rio de Janeiro´s racing course - 1967
The "AC" racing cars - 1976
The Hollywood Team - with two Porsches 908 and 910 - who won all categories in Brasilian racings
• As a well recognized and renowed brasilian car designer, with twelve cars produced, all brasilian magazines mentioned his works, regarding his nice developments.
• The projects of Anisio Campos are:
• PUMA GT - DKW / Auto-Union / Puma Cars - 1964 • CARCARÁ - streamlined car / DKW Speed record - 1966 • AC Group 4 / FIA racing car - 1968 • TROPI VW – Kadron Buggy - 1968 • GT-4R – VW GT – only 3 models builded for 4Rodas magazine readers - 1969 • Corcel - Lift-back FORD / SOUZA RAMOS - 1982 • Scorpion - Van to FORD / ENGERAUTO - 1985 • Topazio - Mpv FORD / ENGERAUTO - 1986 • NICK - Urban car for DACON/VW - 1988 • CHUBBY - Luxury car for DACON/VW - 1990 • And back to the projects in 2001, with Obvio ! Company
• Since Anisio is very related with all racings in Brasil, between the sixties and the eighties, we have more than 50 nice stories, that we will put here in a short time period, translated to english - this texts are in Portuguese, but the pictures are very nice !:
It´s forbidden to use any of the images or texts in this entire site without previous and specific formal authorizations from the company Obvio !.
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