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Offline F1dino

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Lucky me. Classic car auction in Austin, Texas
« on: December 04, 2013, 09:46:04 pm »
Well,
By some fluke I managed to 'blag' my way into the Motostalgia Grand Prix auction in Austin Texas last month.
Guess what the star car was???

An Abarth...but a special one....it was actually THE 1950 Cisitalia-Abarth 204A Spyder Sport which was driven by Tazio Nuvolari in the 1950's.

An 1100cc OHC 4 cylinder, 4 speed car producing 80hp....seems nothing by todays standards...but this was over 60 years ago.
She is a beautiful car.

I have a copy of the catalogue with a full description inside of race victories etc etc. I could scan it and post it here if anyone would like to see it. Let me know!  :thumb:

Guide price.....well I'll leave that for you to guess....Put it this way, I'd swap my car for it....oh, and my house!!!

Enjoy
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    Offline dan vbv

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    Re: Lucky me. Classic car auction in Austin, Texas
    « Reply #1 on: December 13, 2013, 07:13:40 pm »
    800grand  is my guess      i will have 2 please ;D


    80hp from a n/a 1.1   thats not that bad by standards now    73hp per 1l

    2006 ford ka  had 70hp and a 1.3 engine  54hp per 1l 

    nomal 1.6 cars make 100hp  thats only    62.5 hp per 1l

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    2011 abarth 500 is now lightly modified

    1000hp single turbo supra 6speed manual   i want one

    Offline F1dino

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    Re: Lucky me. Classic car auction in Austin, Texas
    « Reply #2 on: December 19, 2013, 11:23:19 am »
    I'm abroad again so am not near the catalogue right now.
    I suppose that when you think that my 2litre Lancia Beta Montecarlo had 119bhp and that seemed a lot back then and that was in 1990!

    I believe the car sold for US $3.5million. Now I'd happily change my car and house for that, (but I'd never move over to the USA).

    I'll scan the pages from the catalogue when I'm back home and put them on the forum.

    Historic Thread maybe???  :whistle:
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    Offline Robin

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    Re: Lucky me. Classic car auction in Austin, Texas
    « Reply #3 on: December 19, 2013, 02:21:06 pm »
    Good idea! Abarth heritage thread?

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    Offline F1dino

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    Re: Lucky me. Classic car auction in Austin, Texas
    « Reply #4 on: January 22, 2014, 10:30:23 pm »
    Pages from the catalogue as promised.
    Sorry for the quality, I had to scan them at work and I ran out of time.
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    Re: Lucky me. Classic car auction in Austin, Texas
    « Reply #5 on: January 22, 2014, 10:31:21 pm »
    More
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    Offline F1dino

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    Re: Lucky me. Classic car auction in Austin, Texas
    « Reply #6 on: January 22, 2014, 10:33:25 pm »
    And the last 3 pages...

    I'll own one one day... :thumb:

    Sorry I took so long getting them posted but time really wasn't on my side.
    Better late than never.

    Enjoy the classic 1st ever Abarth....Carlo did a good job
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