Moretti 1200

The Moretti 1200 was the large-engine sports car that Moretti built in the mid 1950s around its own twin-cam four cylinder engine, which had grown from 750 cc to just over 1.2 litres. Ultimatecarpage says the engine breathed through a pair of Weber carburettors, made 80 hp and drove through a four-speed gearbox on a platform chassis, and that Moretti offered the 1200 Sport as a coupe and as a spider with bodies drawn by Giovanni Michelotti and built by the company itself. Conceptcarz describes the 1200S of 1955 as a spyder that arrived two years before Fiat introduced its own 1200 models and counts two built. The cost of building such cars from scratch proved too high, and by the late 1950s Moretti had switched to modifying existing cars.