It’s called the Abarth 1000 Sport Prototipo Racer concept, and it was created to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the iconic open-top racer of the 1960s which weighed just 480kg.
In the latter half of the 1950s, Alfa Romeo and Abarth worked in tandem to produce a sports car with a limited displacement. Entrusted to Mario Colucci – a Milan engineer and Alfa Romeo employee, the project came to fruition in 1958 with the manufacturing of an Abarth 1000-based Alfa Romeo, a compact coupé – driven by an engine based on the four-cylinder Sprint Veloce, but with a lower displacement – and characterized by a chassis consisting of a lattice of pipes.
Dressed up in bodywork made by Bertone to a design by Franco Scaglione, the car remains a unique piece.
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