{"id":12744,"date":"2013-04-24T00:43:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T07:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giuliettas.com\/?p=12744"},"modified":"2013-04-24T00:43:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T07:43:18","slug":"another-ss-cousin-fiat-stanguellini-bertone-berlinetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/2013\/04\/24\/another-ss-cousin-fiat-stanguellini-bertone-berlinetta\/","title":{"rendered":"Another SS cousin: FIAT Stanguellini Bertone Berlinetta"},"content":{"rendered":"

1954 FIAT Stanguellini Bertone Berlinetta *071366*. <\/strong>This car is for sale now<\/a> through Fantasy Junction, but is doing residence at the Petersen Automobile Museum in southern California -worth a visit even if this wasn’t there. \u00a0If the Sprint and SS have an extended family, this car would be considered an older second cousin, perhaps a first cousin even, and definitely a near sibling of the Sprint and BAT cars. \u00a0The list of cars Franco Scaglione<\/a> had a hand in creating is impressive, and includes many of Alfa’s most coveted one-offs, listed one after another (1900L, Sportiva, BAT 5,7,9 etc) and many others like this little guy. \u00a0Truly art in automotive form. \u00a0This is a car that demands a place in your house<\/em> -not your garage. \u00a0For $295,000 you’ll be in an exclusive club.<\/p>\n

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This is a beautiful car from some angles and a challenging car from others -but then a lot of Scaglione’s creations are. \u00a0You have to look at it for a few moments, then remember that this is a hand made car. \u00a0Panels were hand formed, gas welded together and married to some seed of a FIAT 1100 chassis. \u00a0Color is great -not a color one would typically associate with Italian sports cars, but common in the\u00a0palette\u00a0of early 1950’s Italy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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There is some of the ordinary<\/em> Giulietta Sprint in here, as well as hints as to where he would go with the SS. \u00a0There is a good chance this design project and the Giulietta Sprint design project had some overlap. \u00a0I’m not sure how I feel about the grill area on this. \u00a0I’d have to spend more time with it in person before I made a firm judgement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are three roads to going quicker\/faster: decrease weight, increase power and lower drag. \u00a0Franco Scaglione was a man driven to bring\u00a0aerodynamics\u00a0to sports cars -not fake ‘make it look slippery’ shapes, but quantitatively derived bodies\u00a0systematically developed to lower the drag coefficient. \u00a0Add to this a performance tuned Fiat 1100 TV based engine from Stanguellini and two thirds of the above recipe for speed would be addressed.<\/p>\n

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Little fins out back, a split window on a hatch back, faired in tail lamps, vents on the side behind the front wheels -what more could you want?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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There must have been a shop in Italy, probably down the street from the Bertone factory, where custom glass could be floated\/bent. \u00a0What are the chances this is the windshield from some other production car? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Neat. \u00a0Dark gray, burnt orange and yellow never looked so good together. \u00a0I guess it wouldn’t be too hard to find parts to restore this from since a car like this would be fitted with whatever components Bertone or Fiat had on the shelves that fit the application.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I know some of you are reading this and thinking about the Fiat 1100, and wondering why anyone would start with that engine. \u00a0Practically speaking, powering your race car with a proven reliable, commonly available and readily serviceable engine makes a lot of sense. \u00a0This didn’t escape most would-be racers and what today might be called a spec race environment flourished with all manner of Fiat 1100 based cars finding their way onto tracks around Italy in the early 1950’s. \u00a0Doing a coach built sporty berlinetta with this formula in mind made a lot of sense.<\/p>\n

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Good grief -look at that steering box placement! \u00a0This has a variation on the typical hood prop theme. \u00a0My Sprint and Appia both have similar. \u00a0Another application for the 40DCO3. \u00a0This looks perfect to me -not over done but clean and purposeful.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Two of the early Sprint prototypes were hatch backs of this sort. \u00a0If only… \u00a0I’m guessing that’s the Stanguellini ‘S’ badge.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Engine number. \u00a0Not very often you see a body-color engine block.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Even looks petty good under here. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cars like this are pretty interesting. \u00a0Imagine the efforts made to bring this from crusty incomplete project to what you see here. \u00a0I get calls from guys trying to figure out what empty screw holes in their Sprint were for, what the finish on some parts should be, or how I would tackle some tricky task. \u00a0Who do you call for a car like this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1954 FIAT Stanguellini Bertone Berlinetta *071366*. This car is for sale now through Fantasy Junction, but is doing residence at the Petersen Automobile Museum in southern California -worth a visit even if this wasn’t there. \u00a0If the Sprint and SS have an extended family, this car would be considered an older second cousin, perhaps a … <\/p>\n

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