1981 Felber Roberta

The 1981 Felber Roberta was a Lancia Delta-based vehicle. It was presented at the 1981 Geneva Motor Show.

The WH Felber Automobiles SA (Felber ) was a Swiss automobile manufacturer.

The company, based in Morges near Lausanne on Lake Geneva, was founded in the 1960s by the Swiss businessman Willy Felber. Initially, Felber successfully operated an agency for expensive automobile brands such as Rolls-Royce and Ferrari under "Haute Performance Morges."

In 1974, at the customer's request, Felber presented his first self-constructed car, a classic-style roadster based on a Ferrari coupé. A series of other vehicles followed by 1984, with the focus of activities increasingly shifting. In addition to individual in-house designs, from the mid-1970s onwards, Felber was largely concerned with offering visually modified versions of various mass-produced vehicles. The vehicles were upgraded with largely unchanged bodywork, especially in the interior. Exceptions were the Excellence and Oasis models, which were also significantly modified externally.

During this time, Felber competed primarily with the Basel- based company Monteverdi. While Peter Monteverdi was able to realize a kind of series production, Felber limited himself to producing unique items on behalf of customers or small series.

In 1984, the production of vehicles by WH Felber Automobiles SA ended. The reason was the stricter regulations on type approval in Switzerland and Europe, which made it difficult for small manufacturers such as Felber and Monteverdi to distribute individual models. The WH Felber Automobiles SA was finally liquidated and deleted from the commercial register in April 1991st Willy Felber died in December 2002. In the period that followed, Felber dealt with the sale and service of imported brands and the restoration of third-party and own vehicles.

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