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This Fiat 131 has been driven by Walter Rohrl.  Seen in Turin, Italy, at the Fiat Mirafiori Motor Village. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588

Back in the days when Italian cars were winning the World Rally Championships, the Fiat 131 was leaving everybody behind. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588

One of the nicest mall spider cars ever built. Seen in Turin at  "Heart and Carburetor" meeting. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588 The Fiat 124 Sport Spider is a 2+2 convertible sports car marketed by FIAT from 1966 to 1980 – having debuted at the November 1966 Turin Auto Show. Designed and manufactured by Italian carrozzeria Pininfarina, Fiat and Pininfarina continued to market the monocoque-bodied car as the 2000 Spider from 1979 to 1982. Pininfarina itself assumed the car's marketing from 1983 to the end of its production in 1985 – as the Pininfarina Spider Azzura. The car was sold in Europe and the U.S. from its introduction until the 1975 model year when it was modified to comply with new U.S. regulations and no European version was produced. Sales in Europe resumed when Pininfarina took over production in 1983 under the name Pininfarina Europa Spider. The body of the car was designed and marke...

This jewel was seen at the Heart & Carburetor meeting in Turin, Italy. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588

Fiat 500 A Barchetta by Nuccio Bertone. 1936-1947. Museo dell' Automobile, Turin, Italy. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588 This is a Fiat 500 Barchetta Bertone (1936-47). The starting date of 1936 is because the chassis and driveline were derived from the 1936 Fiat 500 Topolino. Here is the story behind this very importand handmade car. The young son (Nuccio Bertone) of the Bertone founder bought a 500 with his own cash and worked with other two mechanics outside of business to build his personal racecar and this takes about 11 years to complete finally after the WW 2  at 1947! It was his first personal "racing" barchetta,with this car he started his racing driver career

This 1954 car propelled by a gas turbine still looks futuristic today. Maybe because it is so aerodynamic that it  held the record for lowest drag coefficient on an automobile (0.14) for 30 years. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588 The project took a long period of planning, studies began in 1948 and ended with a track test in 1954 on the rooftop track of the Lingotto factory. The engine had two compressor stages, one turbine stage, power turbine was single stage with a geared reduction. The declared power was 300 hp (220 kW) at 22,000 rpm, and the estimated top speed was approximately 250 km/h (160 mph). SUSPENSION Front: independent coil springs and hydraulic shock absorbers in oil bath. Rear: Independent coil springs, hydraulic shock absorbers in oil bath.  STRUCTURE tubular frame. DIMENSIONS: Wheelbase 2.400 mm Track front 1.296 mm rear 1.297 mm. Length 4.370 mm. Width 1.610 mm. Height overall 1.255 ...

This is a special edition of the Fiat 500 Abarth. The engine is pushed to 180 HP and several details inside and outside the car recall the Scuderia Ferrari race cars. Seen in the city centre of Turin, Italy . Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588

Just saw in Turin, Italy, this very rare Fiat 500 Ghia Jolly, also known as "spiaggina" or beach car. A short video of the car is here: http://youtu.be/juGtjJXl-ZM This version of the old Fiat 500 was produced by the Ghia and designed by Sergio Sartorelly, then the technical director of the workshop in Turin. Ghia produced the car between 1958 and 1974 and it licensed production to other authorised workshops.  Please see my collection of videos on my YouTube channel:  http://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588/videos