Spot on???
Once again, don't trust Wiki. And, not to get into an argument, but spot-on compared to what??? Other google results?? That and a nickel wouldn't get you a cup of coffee. I'd like to think that I have some parts of the I-cars story together, maybe not all of this one.
But if it was spot on, how do you explain the reference to Zampolli as a Ferrari dealer? He never was. He may have owned a Lamborghini dealership for a few years, but that's it. Maybe he sold used Ferraris. He was actually a test driver for Lamborghini in Italy, so it makes sense, but he was never a Ferrari dealer. More than anything, he was well known as an exotic car repair service in Los Angeles and serviced the exotics of the celebrities.
Auto Italia Magazine article listed actual production at 7, with two of those going to the Sultan of Brunnei, but I was not citing that source, though it comports with the Wiki thing in there being a large number produced, but the total differs.
Further, that there were two more (supposedly) cobbled together hardly counts as "factory production", now does it? That's the first I've seen that he actually still builds them on demand. A quick phone call to Claudio's would likely clear that up.
I read the original Road & Track article years ago, that briefly tested the car, or, rode in it with Zampolli driving it around the streets of LA. At that point the company was foundering and production was in question, with only a few, they said 2, produced at that point. That certainly could have been incomplete. And it probably boils down to what 'production' means as it pertains to this. After the company goes belly up they scrap plans but still try to finish out what they have on the floor with what parts supplies they have? So...of course, there may have been eight or ten total cars made out of the original parts or whatever, but I doubt that, they could have been finished elsewhere by custom shops.
So it really boils down to how many complete, rolling cars they eventually managed to get out the door in a condition someone was willing to pay money for or to take somewhere else to have finished. That could, or could not, be...."production."
But who knows. Cool pictures.