Tim North
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On Aug 8, 2019, at 1:51 PM,
Bored sitting on a plane from Las Vegas to Chicago I was reading Wikipedia on the X1/9. It says that Miro Kefurt imported the car in it’s final years, so I researched him and found him in Jean, NV and an email address, so I emailed him. Here is his response below. . . I was intrigued by his comment about Fiat selling the X1/9 replacement prototype to Mazada. I never heard that one before.
Begin forwarded message:
From: mirox@aol.com
Date: August 8, 2019 at 11:35:27 AM PDT
To:
Subject: Re: Bertone X1/9
M.I.K. Automotive, Inc. in North Hollywood sold about 300 to 400 cars each year from 1984 to 1989 the two next best dealers were Ron Tonkin in Oregon and another Dealer Group that sold from several locations in Dallas and Houston they averaged 32 and 26 cars per year respectively.
Once Bertone decided to give up on USA Nuccio told me personally that if they had at least two or three dealers like me they would stay in USA but they did not.
The replacement for the X1/9 prototype was sold to MAZDA and became the Miata.
I do not have any VIN records we sent that all to SOCAR that was Bertone parts and Warranty division.
Sincerely
Miro Kefurt
this may interest you:
http://www.synlube.com/Bertone.html
Bored sitting on a plane from Las Vegas to Chicago I was reading Wikipedia on the X1/9. It says that Miro Kefurt imported the car in it’s final years, so I researched him and found him in Jean, NV and an email address, so I emailed him. Here is his response below. . . I was intrigued by his comment about Fiat selling the X1/9 replacement prototype to Mazada. I never heard that one before.
Begin forwarded message:
From: mirox@aol.com
Date: August 8, 2019 at 11:35:27 AM PDT
To:
Subject: Re: Bertone X1/9
M.I.K. Automotive, Inc. in North Hollywood sold about 300 to 400 cars each year from 1984 to 1989 the two next best dealers were Ron Tonkin in Oregon and another Dealer Group that sold from several locations in Dallas and Houston they averaged 32 and 26 cars per year respectively.
Once Bertone decided to give up on USA Nuccio told me personally that if they had at least two or three dealers like me they would stay in USA but they did not.
The replacement for the X1/9 prototype was sold to MAZDA and became the Miata.
I do not have any VIN records we sent that all to SOCAR that was Bertone parts and Warranty division.
Sincerely
Miro Kefurt
this may interest you:
http://www.synlube.com/Bertone.html