Moretti 750 Tour du Monde Spider

The Moretti 750 Tour du Monde Spider was a limited-series open sports car that Moretti S.p.A. built in Turin between 1957 and 1960, according to the carrozzieri-italiani.com listing for it. The name recalls the firm's publicity expedition of 1952 to 1955, in which a Moretti 600 Giardinetta covered about 120,000 kilometres across several continents, and a small number of specially bodied cars carried the Tour du Monde designation to commemorate it. The Spider had a tubular steel chassis with a wheelbase of about 2,150 millimetres and an open two-seat body with a folding windscreen, made by Carrozzeria Moretti. A front-mounted four-cylinder engine of 747 cubic centimetres with overhead valves gave roughly 30 horsepower through a four-speed gearbox to the rear axle. The page puts its length near 3,750 millimetres and its weight near 750 kilograms, and says production figures are undocumented, naming chassis 1294S and 3075 as known examples. Moretti also made the plain Moretti 750, which has its own entry.