Moretti 1500SS

The Moretti 1500SS was a small-series coupé that the Turin coachbuilder Moretti built on the Fiat 1500 and 1600 S Cabriolet family, described by Auto e Moto d'Epoca as an eccentric and alluring spin-off with a slightly uprated engine. The Bologna show organiser explains that in the first half of the 1960s Fiat concentrated on high-end coupés and left a gap in the middle-class market, which the coachbuilders filled with niche designs in tune with the fashions of the day. It credits the 1500SS to Dany Brawand, Moretti's head of design, and showed a masterfully restored 1968 example from the Moretti Enonsolo museum at the 2024 Bologna exhibition, beside the Moretti-Fiat 127 Midimaxi. The French magazine Les Rhabilleurs lists a sports coupé of 1967 called the Moretti 1500 SS among the notable works of the Turin coachbuilder, so the sources date the car to 1967 and 1968 without settling which marks its first production. Wikipedia lists a Fiat 1500 Moretti among the company's Fiat-based models.