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Augusto Camillo Pietro Monaco (15 March 1903 – 4 November 1997) was an Italian engineer, best known for his racing cars from the early 1930s.
Monaco was born in
Buenos Aires
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, where he earned a degree in
engineering
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before relocating to
Turin
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in the early 1920s, where he made his automobile engineering contributions:
*1927 Monaco-Baudo with
Antonio Baudo, a single-cylinder 500 cm
3 side-valved engine;
*1932 Nardi-Monaco with
Enrico Nardi
Enrico Nardi (1907 in Bologna – 23 August 1966) was an Italian racing car driver and designer.
He worked at Lancia between 1929 and 1937 as a truck engineer, racing car driver, and later, advisor to Vincenzo Lancia. He was moderately successfu ...
, a front-wheeled twin-cylinder JAP engine (998 cm
3, 65 bhp) nicknamed Chichibio, and winning several hillclimbs;
*1935 Trossi-Monaco with
Carlo Felice Trossi
Count Carlo Felice Trossi di Pian Villar (27 April 1908 – 9 May 1949) was an Italian racing driver and auto constructor.
Racing career
During Trossi's career, he raced for three different teams: Mercedes-Benz, Alfa Romeo and, briefly, Mase ...
, a 16-cylinder (250 bhp, 3982 cm
3) race car, uncompetitive due to an unsuitable 75/25 weight distribution.
Since then he declined an offer to join
Fiat
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, and among several engineering projects, was involved in developing
synthetic diamond
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s, a Swiss-patented invention (1948). Augusto Monaco moved to
Livorno
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in the early 1960s, where he worked on hydraulic systems until his retirement. He died in Livorno, 1997.
References
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Italian automotive engineers
Engineers from Buenos Aires
1903 births
1997 deaths