Abarth Simca 1300 GT

The Abarth-Simca 1300 GT is a sports racing car built by Abarth from 1962 to 1965 on a shortened floorpan from the Simca 1000. It was the first product of the collaboration between Carlo Abarth and Simca, which wanted a sporting partner for the launch of its new saloon. Abarth fitted a rear-mounted 1,288 cc twin-cam four-cylinder engine of its own design, rated at 125 hp, with an aluminium body built by small Turin coachbuilders. It was presented at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1962, was homologated for the Grand Touring category that October, and took the Division I constructors championship in 1964 and 1965. The takeover of Simca by Chrysler ended the partnership.