Before The Imports, The Argentinian-Made Lutteral Comahue Was The Coolest Car Money Could Buy In South America

On a recent trip to Argentina I found one of the coolest tuner cars money could buy there in the early 1970s: the Lutteral Comahue, a GT car based on the IKA Torino coupe.

To give you some context, the beginning of the Lutteral Comahue story is set in 1967, when the IKA Torino was a newly successful Argentinian-built car. These Torinos were constructed using some base chassis components from the AMC Rambler paired with the Jeep Tornado engine, blended together with styling ordered by Juan Manuel Fangio from Pininfarina, along with some local engineering on top. In other words, it came from a lot of places, but the Torino was the ultimate effort to make a proper Argentinian car.

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