Abarth 700-1000 Spider Tubolare

The Abarth 700-1000 Spider Tubolare was a competition sports car that Abarth built in 1961 to take the scorpion badge into the long-distance sports car races held around the world. It was built by Mario Colucci, formerly of Alfa Romeo and then Abarth technical director, with an aluminium body over a lattice of tubes and a centrally mounted twin overhead camshaft engine of 75 hp driving a four-speed gearbox, with four disc brakes and many cooling vents. After a failed run at Le Mans in 1961, one car was fitted with an Abarth-Simca 1300 engine on a longer wheelbase and won the Mont de la Lure hillclimb with Gianni Balzarini, which helped to start the later Simca partnership.