Abarth 2000 Cuneo

The Abarth 2000 Cuneo was a competition car that Abarth built in 1968 to contest the European Hill Climb Championship in the sports prototype class. Designed for twisting uphill courses, it had wishbone and coil spring suspension at the front, swing arms at the rear and stabiliser bars, over a tubular frame wrapped in an aluminium body. Its overhung engine was an inline four-cylinder of 250 hp with two Weber 58 DC03 carburettors and a five-speed manual gearbox. The extremely aerodynamic wedge shape gave it the nickname Cuneo, and it carried neither headlamps nor windscreen to save weight. It first raced at the Ampus hillclimb in France, driven by Edoardo Lualdi Gabardi, and Abarth later set it aside because Ferrari proved too strong.