In 1939, Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (FIAT) designed and produced a car that was so elegant, only four were ever built and sold.
Meet the ’39 FIAT 1500 B 6c Touring Superleggera Coupe Speciale. It was FIAT’s first venture into serious aerodynamic body styling and the first Torino-based project to be tested in a wind tunnel.
The Touring Superleggera Coupe Speciale was sylish, fast, sporty and curvaceous, with its radical, sweeping design highlighted by the aerodynamic arrow-shaped nose section.
With only four cars ever built from this model, maybe FIAT believed, at the time, that it had reached automotive design perfection and thought it best to just break the mold, much like four other curvaceous Italian models: Loren, Lollobrigida, Cardinale and Bellucci.
©The Palladian Traveler
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Very nice. And here I am still waiting for a reply SMS from someone saying that she’s willing to be my model for the week. Should have stucked to something more reliable. Such a very shiny stylish car.
Good luck with your model search. Would you like me to ask if Sophia, Gina, Claudia or Monica might be available? 🙂
Fantastic … brilliant gallery.
Glad you enjoyed my curvy gallery. Thanks!
I want one.
Me, too, but there are only 4 and they’re not 4 sale.
Beautiful automobile, great shots – you really enhanced the curvature and love the clear reflections of the car’s surroundings. Outstanding!
Thanks much, W-grass.
I had a FIAT years ago…….I found out the the letters stood for Fix It Again Tony! It was always in the shop! 🙂
Although not THAT Fiat! 😆
Madelaine – Now you know that’s just not true — Fabbrica Italian Automobili Torino — like FORD doesn’t really stand for “First On Race Day.” 🙂
LOL No, FORD means Fix Or Repair Daily!
What a gorgeous car! My dad had the first F1/9 (made first by Fiat but by the time we got one, by Bertone) in Omaha, Nebraska. It was lime green, a blast to drive and had people hanging out their car windows to ask what it was, as you could only see “Bertone”. I didn’t realize what Fiat stood for and I caught that curve reference at the end. 🙂
janet
Fiat X 1/9, not F. Blasted keyboard. 🙂
That’s a fairly “modern” FIAT sports car with the engine placed midway between driver and tail. Bertone, by the way, was the body design company licensed by FIAT; all the other mechanics were FIAT, so your pop was cruising around Omaha in a “Fix it again Tony.” 🙂 Same for my 850 FIAT Spider convertible, British Racing Green with fawn leather interior, with the body designed by Bertone. It was a good little scoot-around car back in the day. 🙂
What made it so frustrating for people is that it didn’t say “Fiat” anywhere, just “Bertone” and who knew what that meant? The roof lifted off and it was so much fun. Yours sounds pretty sweet, too.
That lime green was pretty flashy along with the other neon colors, lemon and orange. Probably worth a lot of dough today, just like my 850 cabriolet. Darn! The guy I sold it to, back in ’76, still has it and it still runs.
Yeah, but you can’t keep everything. And if everyone kept everything, none of it would be worth anything. 🙂
Absolutely. To the victor (purchaser) goes the spoils.
Now that is one sexy car. Love how your photos truly showed its beauty Tom.
Emily — What made this shoot was that amazing midnight blue paint job on that ’39 FIAT that reflected all of the buildings in the city center piazza. Glad you enjoyed it.