Bertone B.A.T No. 1?
#1
Posted 24 April 2003 - 06:20
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#2
Posted 24 April 2003 - 12:55
But it has always been a mystery how the car got to the little radio repair shop in Roselawn IN in the first place. If BAT1 had a connection to Packard, that might explain how BAT5 got to Indiana--
Packard to Studebaker, which itself was struggling and examining imported cars (ultimately to become the first agent for Mercedes in the US).
#3
Posted 24 April 2003 - 13:52
In any case, it was one hell of a find. Just goes to show that they're not all found yet. It never ceases to amaze me, the treasures out there still.
#4
Posted 24 April 2003 - 14:39
Tipo 203 is a Gilco number (the company that built all Ferrari chassis until 1957), and as far as I am aware, there are no Abarth Tipo 203s (unless the car owned by Peter Zobian, known to have been designed by Savonuzzi, and known as the Goldmanini is a 203.
Tipo 204 exists as an Abarth number, as does 205. Not sure about 206 ...and 207, 208 and 209 are the asymentric race car, the street version with full windscreen, and one-off coupe in Rosso-Bianco.
By this time we are up to 1954-1955...so really odd to me that this car is Tipo 214..
Although they are Savonuzzi and not Scaglione designs, and built by Vignale and not Bertone...the 1947 and 1948 Cisitalia SMM Mille Miglia coupes are kind of the first cars of this style...
#5
Posted 24 April 2003 - 15:41
Now over to the real aficionados again... :
#6
Posted 24 April 2003 - 16:06
#7
Posted 24 April 2003 - 21:10
#8
Posted 28 April 2003 - 17:10
Anyway -- an astounding barn find!
#9
Posted 28 April 2003 - 19:43
Any idea where copies of the first 4 design studies can be found?
#10
Posted 16 October 2006 - 23:39
Originally posted by BRG
Might I just say that if I had a car as truly, madly, deeply ugly as this one, I would push it back into the barn, lock the doors and throw away the key!
Now over to the real aficionados again... :
I agree with Karl - I really like the Abarth 214. I think it's a very handsome car and I wish it was parked in my barn. As to the numbering, 214 is an Abarth tipo number and these numbers seem to have started life as the Cisitalia tipo numbers. Just as Squadra Piero Dusio became Squadra Carlo Abarth, the Cisitalia 202 became the Cisitalia 204 and then the Abarth 204 and so on. These don't have anything to do with the individual car's chassis number - they are tipo numbers. And Abarth seems to have stopped these 200 series tipo numbers shortly after he went into series production of the rear engined Fiat 600 based cars.
As far as the Abarth 214 is concerned, I again agree with Karl, I don't think this should be called BAT 1. If you look through the Bertone book there were quite a few finned cars designed by Scaglione and built by Bertone. In fact, one has just recently surfaced based on a 1953 FIAT 1100TV chassis. It too has the fins and the split back window. Obviously these were design themes that Scaglione liked.
#11
Posted 17 October 2006 - 01:34
Originally posted by vintageautomobilia
I agree with Karl - I really like the Abarth 214. I think it's a very handsome car and I wish it was parked in my barn. As to the numbering, 214 is an Abarth tipo number and these numbers seem to have started life as the Cisitalia tipo numbers. Just as Squadra Piero Dusio became Squadra Carlo Abarth, the Cisitalia 202 became the Cisitalia 204 and then the Abarth 204 and so on. These don't have anything to do with the individual car's chassis number - they are tipo numbers. And Abarth seems to have stopped these 200 series tipo numbers shortly after he went into series production of the rear engined Fiat 600 based cars.
As far as the Abarth 214 is concerned, I again agree with Karl, I don't think this should be called BAT 1. If you look through the Bertone book there were quite a few finned cars designed by Scaglione and built by Bertone. In fact, one has just recently surfaced based on a 1953 FIAT 1100TV chassis. It too has the fins and the split back window. Obviously these were design themes that Scaglione liked.
There is also a Stanguellini coupe that looks quite a bit like the recently found Fiat 1100TV.
I would love to see the sketchs on what someone might call BAT 2, 3, and 4
#12
Posted 17 October 2006 - 06:14