Abarth Classiche Celebrates 100 Years Of Monza Circuit With Fiat 500 Restomod

Italy’s historic Autodromo di Monza circuit turns 100 this yr, and Stellantis Heritage is marking the event with a tribute to a automotive that set a stack of data there, serving to put the Abarth identify on the map.

Known as the Abarth Classiche 500 Document Monza ’58, the celebration automotive is a one-off construct based mostly on a 1970 Fiat 500 however modified to appear like the primary ever Fiat 500 tuned by Abarth, a automotive that broke six pace and endurance data in February 1958 on the previous banked circuit.

Being a more recent automotive, the donor doesn’t have the suicide doorways Fiat deserted in 1965, however in its mist inexperienced paint, and sporting “Fiat 500 Abarth” graphics, an Abarth grille and badge, driving lights, and a inflexible roof panel to exchange the inventory automotive’s roll-back canvas roof, it’s a fairly convincing reproduction in most different methods. Inside, the brand new automotive sports activities a picket steering wheel and a dashboard stuffed with Jaeger devices, plus naked flooring and a single race seat.

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Carry the rear hood, whip out your magnifying glass, and also you’ll discover a two-cylinder engine that’s been enlarged to an enormous 595 cc utilizing the official Abarth Classiche 595 Tuning Equipment that’s based mostly on the unique assortment of upgrades Abarth launched in 1963. That ought to give the brand new automotive somewhat greater than the 18 hp (18 PS) and 61 mph (98 km/h) high pace of an ordinary 1970 Fiat 500, and perhaps deliver it near matching the 26 hp (26 PS) and 73 mph (118 km/h) achieved by the ’58 report automotive, which lapped the Monza circuit for an unimaginable, and possibly extremely boring, 168 hours.

The brand new automotive is on show on the Milan AutoClassica present, and to let guests choose for themselves how shut the Abarth Classiche crew’s creation is to the unique, the lately restored actual report breaker joins it on the stand, together with the 2022 Abarth Classiche 1000 SP sports activities automotive.

Abarth is constructing 5 SPs, that are impressed by one other of the corporate’s racing heroes, the 1966 1000 Sport Prototipo, and based mostly on the carbon chassis and operating gear of the late Alfa Romeo 4C sports activities automotive. Solely a kind of SP remains to be up for grabs, and there’ll solely ever be one of many tribute 500s, so if you wish to bag both you higher get on to Abarth Classiche sharpish.