Abarth 1000 Bialbero

The Abarth 1000 Bialbero was a sports coupe that Abarth built from 1960 to 1966. It was shown at the 1961 Turin motor show and carried a rear-mounted Abarth four-cylinder inline engine of 982 cc fed by two Weber carburettors. The chassis, running gear and suspension came largely from the Fiat 600, and the engine was a reworked Fiat 600 block topped with the twin overhead camshaft eight-valve head of the Abarth 750 Zagato, which gave the car its Bialbero name, with hemispherical combustion chambers and a five-speed gearbox. The first body was drawn by Zagato but built in Turin in the Abarth workshops, and the shape later changed from rounded to wedge-like. It won the 500 km of the Nürburgring in 1962 and took the international GT manufacturers division I title in 1962 and 1963.