55 years of Abarth

[kawa22]

at Torino 21/22 02 2004 on lingotto will be a show of 55 years of Abarth with many cars

[kawa22]

[kawa22]

but now

[marciodcmendes]

I'd like to be there. It must be an awesome spectacle!!!! 8)

[altedza]

can someone explaint o me what abarth is?

briefly, Abarth is a tuning/styling company who mainly specialize in enhancing fiat and lancia cars, building limited run specials such as rally cars for those compaines, and they have also made some race cars of their own in the past, like this one,

[levensnevel]

I stumbled across another nice Abarth



Piccy shot near Bordeau Carcassonne on Thursday during the 2001 edition of the 'tour de france' rally

[kawa22]

Originally Posted by dani_d_mas The road version of the 131 used to have 4 doors... wht the 131 Abarth has just two? Is it a sillouette? Did exist a standard version of a Fiat 131 with 2 doors? In Spain it didn't exist...

http://www.riminituning.it/img/bott/.../131abarth.htm
the 131 abarth was made for rally in 500 car

race version


street version
this car wons in 1978/79/80 the world rally championship with alen and rohrl

[No.1]

Heres the new 500 Fiat! Abarth will never be beaten.










By the way.... Michael Schuhmacher still has an original Fiat 500 that he learnt to drive in.