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The Fiat-Abarth Zagato Is A Mille Miglia Marvel
When I was very young back in the late ’60s, my uncle had this exact car in this exact color (was there any other color available?). He loaned it to a friend who took it into the local mountains during wintertime and promptly stuffed it into a snow bank, mangling the one piece fiberglas front end.
I remember with vivid detail how he found another Zagato in town (yes, there were at least two in San Diego at the time) and convinced the owner to let him make a mold of the car’s front end so that he could produce a new one, which he did much to my amazement, right in the grandparents’ driveway!
This more than anything else led me to become a lifetime tinkerer with all things mechanical. When he bequeathed me his large collection of finished and unfinished 1/24 scale model kits, the deal was sealed, and I went on to become one of the world’s foremost authorities on the restoration of another famous Italian marque… the venerable Lambretta motor scooter.
Thanks for the great writeup and video, what a blast from the past!
Great to see this car driving in the canyons. I enjoyed seeing it in person; so many neat details.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/photosbyjohnwiley/sets/72157641832193273/
Somewhat cute – somewhat brute. This little car has many flavours wrapped in one tiny package.
But to make it less cute and more brute… how about installing a twin turbo flat six engine?
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