Turin, 18th November 2022: Stellantis Heritage takes half within the 12th Milano AutoClassica (Fiera Milano, November 18th-20th), a motor present specializing in traditional and sports activities automobiles and a benchmark for fans, collectors, museums and golf equipment within the discipline. The occasion is a chance to current the Heritage workforce’s newest creation, the Abarth Classiche 500 Record Monza ’58, a automotive created to rejoice the centenary of the Autodromo di Monza, the Italian “temple of speed” the place Abarth has racked up numerous successes.
Among essentially the most vital ones, the six velocity and endurance data broke in a single week in February 1958, aboard the primary Fiat 500 developed by the House of the Scorpion, beneath the cautious supervision of Carlo Abarth himself.
Abarth Classiche 500 Record Monza heritage
Hence the identify of this distinctive specimen, produced primarily based on a 1970 Fiat 500, utilizing particular aesthetic and mechanical remedies. The “Monza ’58” exterior livery recollects the inexperienced of the automotive that set data at Monza, the identical color used by Abarth in 2019 on its trendy Abarth 695 70° Anniversario. This determination is proof of how the present hyperlink between the 500 Abarth and Monza stays.
The Fiat Nuova 500 developed by Carlo Abarth for the 1958 data serves as inspiration not just for the exterior liveries of the tribute automotive, but in addition for the interiors, which take up the identical cloth and contrasting stitching from the primary collection of the 500, produced since 1957. The identical color distinction will also be seen within the panels and sides of the one racing seat (an extra homage to the record-breaking 500, a single seater to scale back its weight).
The instrumentation is totally complete: moreover the picket steering wheel and Jaeger dashboard attribute of historic Abarth fashions, it features a prestigious timepiece from the identical model that lasts for eight days on a single cost, to recall that busy week at Monza when unbelievable data had been damaged.
The naked flooring and the aerodynamic inflexible roof to interchange the standard delicate high are additionally clearly impressed by racing, as is the pair of further headlights.
The mechanics are additionally particular: the automotive is tuned as much as be particularly sporty and is supplied with the twin-cylinder engine from the Fiat 500, dropped at a displacement of 595 cc utilizing the Abarth Classiche 595 Tuning Kit. Reproduced with the most recent applied sciences, the equipment is impressed by the model made by the House of the Scorpion in 1963. Notably, the engine is identical one used by the Heritage workforce to check the elements of at this time’s Tuning Kit.
The badges – together with the ‘Record Monza’ one, an unique for this distinctive specimen – full the veritable set of jewelry on a very particular automotive, a worthy tribute to an establishment just like the Autodromo di Monza.
This one-off Abarth kinds a part of the Heritage venture often known as “Reloaded by Creators”, by which a restricted quantity of traditional automobiles with licensed authenticity are returned to their unique magnificence due to the experience and know-how of the Heritage workforce of technicians on the Officine Classiche. For all info on the acquisition, you may write to the deal with: heritage@stellantis.com.
Alongside the most recent creation, its predecessor the 1958 Abarth “Record” model of the New Fiat 500 can be proudly displayed on the stand. At its launch in 1957, the Fiat Nuova 500 was configured as a subcompact automotive with efficiency very not like a racing automotive’s: its “little engine” with solely two cylinders was too small and never almost highly effective sufficient to aspire to nice sporting success. But Carlo Abarth was satisfied of the standard and potential of the automotive and determined to show it right into a record-breaking automotive. The 500 he developed, with an engine delivering 26 hp and a high velocity of 118 km/h, was pushed on the Monza circuit for 168 hours working and racked up six worldwide data. The achievement of such main outcomes would additionally contribute to the success of the Nuova 500, making it one of the crucial well-known automobiles ever produced.
The automotive on show – the identical one used at Monza – was additionally the primary ever Fiat 500 tuned up by Abarth. It has now been restored to its unique configuration following a meticulous conservative restoration venture. It is a automotive of inestimable historic worth and marks a real milestone within the historical past of the Abarth model and of the auto.
Especially for this occasion, the show on the stand leaves behind the normal Heritage livery for an Abarth Classiche-only “outfit”, supplemented by one other modern gem, the 2022 Abarth Classiche 1000 SP. This automotive is the modern reinterpretation of the 1966 1000 Sport Prototipo, one of many milestones in Abarth’s aggressive historical past. The unique racecar grew to become an icon of sportiness, in addition to one of many House of the Scorpion’s most beloved fashions, for its model, efficiency, and successful observe report – with victories throughout Europe. It was a legendary automotive that impressed designers on the Centro Stile Fiat and Abarth, who designed its successor in 2009. In 2021, precisely 55 years because the launch of the historic mannequin, the venture was resumed by Abarth Classiche and was perfected to create a automotive that totally channels and modernises the persona of its superb predecessor.
The Abarth Classiche 1000 SP echoes the strains and aesthetic parts that had been a signature of the Nineteen Sixties mannequin. The automotive’s physique – sinuous, with daring curvaceous mudguards that reinforce the visible influence of the wheels – echoes the format of the centrally–engineered spider. The geometries of the Abarth Classiche 1000 SP’s rear underline the right concord between lights and exhaust system. The livery is strictly pink and the attribute air intakes seem throughout, from the entrance bonnet to the cooling slots in its rear counterpart. The lights additionally respect the minimalist scheme of the historic 1000 SP, with point-like headlamps on the nostril and a single pair of spherical taillights, to emphasise the automotive’s spectacular width when seen from behind. The automotive is supplied with a gritty 1742-cc engine, able to delivering 240 hp at 6000 rpm.
Produced in restricted batch of solely 5 models, the automotive triggered a direct feeding frenzy amongst fans and collectors when offered on the current Padua Motor Show. Only one unit continues to be obtainable on the market.
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