WELCOME
TO THE HOMEPAGES OF ARTO TIIPPANA Ltd.
Arto Tiippana Ldt is a
company situated in eastern
Our busines got started in
1988, but already long before this Arto was fixing his own cars and some
friends' Alfas too as a hobby. In the beginning the car busines
was only a secondary occupation for farming and truck-driving, but little by
little the business expanded and we decided to quit the other things and focus
on repairing and maintenance of the Alfas and Mercedes Benz.
Arto, the managing director of our company, carries
out the repairings, painting works and teleselling.
Arto's
hobby n:01 is motor sport. After the work he usually
spends his time with his own sprint cars. Marja-Liisa
works as a "secretary" who takes care of
the office, collects the goods and dispatches the mail. Her hobbies are horses,
dogs and oil painting.
Our headquarters are in a building, which used to be a
cowshed. There we have a garage, a paintshop, an
office and above that a cosy lounge upstairs.
SERVICES
In our garage Alfas get regular services, fixings and
paintings. We also repair crashed cars and swap technical parts. Repair works
are mostly made using original spare parts that we import directly from
Also Mercedes Benz can get all kinds of repairs and
maintenance services. The most essential parts
needed in the basic repairs, we have on the spot and second hand parts we
import from
We also import many other cars
and motorcycles either to be registered or to be used as spare
parts. Arto's passion for rally cars has caused the importation of some of them, like Opel Kadett GSI 16 V and Toyota
Corolla GT, for example. At least 23 Alfa Spiders, a few Porsches, some other
rally cars, museum mobiles and trucks have ended up in
Our services include also mail-order selling of the
spare parts. You can order the items by the telephone or e-mail. Ordered items
we send to you by post or bus freight as cash on delivery parcels.
ARTO'S
HOBBIES
Arto has always been strongly addicted to motor sports. His rally carreer
started in the 70's when he made a trial in s "everyman's class". His
first real rally Arto drove in B-juniors class with Alfa-Romeo Giulia, which
was painted green-white-red, just like Italian flag. After moving to A-juniors'
class Arto built himself a new car,
Every new and then Toyota got some damages, and
for the sake of variety the green-white-red colouring was turned to red -white
-green after the car had hit the trees.For a little
while Toyota was painted blue, but then the team discovered a terrible thing: a
blue car turns much more easily upside-down. So the Italian flag colours come
back.
After
Alfa Romeo 33 4x4 group N came to replace the Opel. Alfa's motor was built up by Teuvo Pohjanperä, and the car was fast enough to meet with success
in ice sprint competitions. Nowadays two men from Imatra,
Jari Miettinen and Jarkko Tukiainen drive this Alfa
in rally competitions a couple of times a year.
Much more power was needed for the sprint
. So, Arto Started to build a new car, Porsche 911 3,0 Special
Salon. The engine came from Perry*s Motors. Two winters Arto took part in
sprint competitions with this Green-white-red Porsche successfully, without
interruptions. Later Juha Ylihauhala
from
Arto’s co-driver Ari-Pekka started to build a new
car for group F. After two years hard work this Toyota Corolla GT was
ready to welcome it’s soul, the engine, made
again “by Teuvo Pohjanperä”.
Then the car went to Arto, who mainly used the car in sprints and a few rally competitions.
Artos
16 years old son