Moretti 500 Giardiniera

The Moretti 500 Giardiniera was shown at the 1958 Turin Auto Salon as Moretti's own answer to the problem of making a small estate from the Fiat Nuova 500, according to the carrozzieri-italiani.com listing. Because the Fiat had its engine at the rear, where a load area would be most useful, Moretti moved the twin-cylinder engine to the front, turned it through 180 degrees, altered the gearbox and made the car front-wheel drive, doing most of the engineering and construction in its own Via Monginevro works in Turin. The result was a small wagon-like Giardiniera and a van for small businesses and urban delivery. The page says the scheme was clever but expensive, and that Fiat solved the same problem more cheaply in 1960 with its own 500 Giardiniera, so the Moretti stayed a rare, short-lived special. It names no fuel and no engine class.