Abarth 3000 SP

The Abarth 3000 SP, formally the Abarth 3000 Sport Prototipo, was a sports car prototype that Abarth & C. built in Turin, Italy. It was the first Abarth with an engine larger than two litres, created after a twelve-cylinder engine of six litres, finished in 1967, was made useless by a change in the racing regulations that capped prototypes at three litres. The engine was a mid-mounted V8 derived from a two-litre unit shown in 1966 and bored out to three litres, driving a five-speed gearbox. The car first raced in Austria in October 1968 and was developed again for 1971, when it helped win the European Hill Climb Championship. Abarth stopped developing it after the company was sold to Fiat.