João do Amaral Gurgel

Male, Person

1926 –

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Who is João do Amaral Gurgel?

João Augusto Conrado do Amaral Gurgel was a Brazilian businessman. In 1969, he decided to start a very small factory, producing small cars. Early models were fiberglass bodies installed on Volkswagen Beetle chassis and machinery. Gurgel introduced Brazil's first domestically designed car, the BR-800, but went out of business in the 1990s. João do Amaral Gurgel was known as João Gurgel. He was the founder of Gurgel. His complete name was João Augusto Conrado do Amaral Gurgel.

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1926

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on July 23, 2013

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