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This Fiat 1100 Charmant Vignale Is Like New
What an amazing find! The owner states he only had to clean it up, but I’m wondering if that clean up included all new bushings,seals, gaskets and other rubber based items as they surely would have dried out over that amount of time. I love how Vignale and the other Italian coach builders would make amazing versions of very plain and simple cars. It’s a shame that no longer occurs.
Can you believe it’s a Fiat? The lost art of great coach building. I think a big difference with the in-house design today by Ferrari, Maserati, and Alfa. Wonderful styling especially from the side view where the car looks like it’s in motion at a standstill. And who’d a thought white-walls would ever look this good on an Italian car!
Ennio Morricone is Italy’s greatest living composer irrespective the genre.
Lovely story and wonderful car.
I enjoy especial Mr. Spataro’s understanding of the mental process of the original owner in ordering a discrete car with special features, like the exhaust, and the aspiration. And I find credible that he might then have found that the car was still a little too flashy for his social position.
At times I have gone through through the same calculations myself. I like cars with performance features, and I like them to look utterly unremarkable.
That sure is one cute little car and a heck of a find in that condition .
But a suggestion Petrolicious seeing as how this is the 2nd video you’ve done on the isle of Sicily .
Next time instead of pulling out the canned ‘ stock ‘ music … see about licensing a few bars from Sicily’s and in fact Italy’s greatest living composer . Composer / Cellist Giovanni Sollima . Trust me on this one and have a listen to his original music and especially his solo cello compositions . Music just waiting to be placed in a film .. tastefully of course
Great idea. I turned Down volume on the film while keeping the Picture on screen and let this play in the background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldPf3yqq3-8
It worked nicely.
