Fiat 750 Abarth

The Fiat Abarth 750 is a modified Fiat 600 produced through a kit sold from March 1955 by the Abarth marque. It was the first transformation of the Fiat 600. To raise the capacity to 747 cubic centimetres, the bore and stroke went from 60 by 56 millimetres to 61 by 64 millimetres. The original Fiat body stayed unchanged, the Abarth badge replaced the Fiat one, and the interior gained a rev counter on the dashboard and a scorpion on the horn button. It was the first widely sold model to be improved in this way, with success. Several kits existed, from a cheap one that only changed the intake and exhaust to a fuller and dearer one with many mechanical parts, and at the start of the 1960s a sharper MM version reached 47 horsepower.