Unfortunately it's not one of the highly-coveted Zagato-bodied models – values for those have long since moved out of my price range – but one of the more 'common' production model-based variants.
To be more specific (& give it the full title) it's a 1963 Fiat Abarth 850 TC Nurburgring replica*.
In the 50's &'60's there was a multitude of tuning firms (including Giannini, Siata, etc) offering modified parts for Fiats but it was Abarth who became the most successful - producing a series of continually-evolving models – one series based on the Fiat 500 & another on the Fiat 600 … & it is the latter that my car is based on.
Abarth (along with many other Italian manufacturers) was notoriously poor at keeping & maintaining Factory records for their cars so it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish between:
- genuine Abarth Factory-built cars
- Dealer-supplied Fiats fitted with Abarth 'Derivazione' kits
- std Fiat 600 models later fitted with a selection of genuine/repro Abarth parts
The only real way of determining the authenticity (or otherwise) of a particular car - & consequently the value – is by tracing its ownership/history.
There is no such problem with my car since I know that it was converted from a std Fiat 600D later in its life.
*As is the case with cars like the 1973 2.7 Carrera RS, there are replicas & there are 'replicas' …
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