Moretti 750 Alger Cabriolet

The Moretti 750 Alger Cabriolet was a limited-production open car that Moretti built in Turin between 1954 and 1955, according to the carrozzieri-italiani.com listing. It was derived from the maker 750 series of small touring cars and meant for warm-climate markets such as the Mediterranean and North Africa, and its name refers to Algiers, a principal export destination. The page says it was also called the Alger-Le Cap. The chassis was a steel tubular frame with Fiat-derived parts, carrying a 747 cubic centimetre overhead-valve inline four-cylinder engine and a four-speed manual gearbox driving the rear axle, with independent front suspension and hydraulic drum brakes all round. Moretti made the aluminium two-door cabriolet body itself, with cut-down sides, a low windscreen and a folding fabric roof. The listing estimates a pre-series of five followed by about 200 cars, says one was shown at the 1954 Turin Motor Show and says four examples are known to survive in private collections. It gives no fuel and no engine class.