Abarth at the Bonfanti Museum

Abarth
at the Museo dell'Automobile 'Luigi Bonfanti'

Another excellent exhibition at the Bonfanti Museum, this time featuring the works of Abarth.
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Carlo Abarth started tuning a Cisitalia D46 (above left) after the war. The 750 Zagato (above) was one of his most famous and numerous products. A variety of small but powerful cars emerged from his company, including the Fiat 850 based 1000 OT and the purer 1000 GT (both left). The various Fiat 600 based cars (a 1000TC below left) also made him famous, with many competitive successes.

As they were integrated into Fiat, Abarth became the competition department of that company, with many well known products including the successful 131 (above right) and 124 (right) based rally cars. Later they went on to prepare the Uno turbo rally version (below). The spectacular but short lived X1/9 Prototipo (below right) was also on show.

A variety of pure sportscars were on display, from single seaters (above right) to the highly successful SP cars (above left) including 1000, 1300 and 2000 versions. The ultimate sportscar would have been the 6000, an original model of which was shown (left) but it was never built. Road cars included the unusual 750 by Vignale (below right) and 2400 by Allemano (below left).

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	Carlo Abarth started tuning a Cisitalia D46 (above left) after the war. The 750 Zagato (above) was one of his most famous and numerous products. A variety of small but powerful cars emerged from his company, including the Fiat 850 based 1000 OT and the purer 1000 GT (both left). The various Fiat 600 based cars (a 1000TC below left) also made him famous, with many competitive successes.

As they were integrated into Fiat, Abarth became the competition department of that company, with many well known products including the successful 131 (above right) and 124 (right) based rally cars. Later they went on to prepare the Uno turbo rally version (below). The spectacular but short lived X1/9 Prototipo (below right) was also on show.


	A variety of pure sportscars were on display, from single seaters (above right) to the highly successful SP cars (above left) including 1000, 1300 and 2000 versions. The ultimate sportscar would have been the 6000, an original model of which was shown (left) but it was never built. Road cars included the unusual 750 by Vignale (below right) and 2400 by Allemano (below left).