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I located this car many years ago and finally worked a deal that will move it to my garage. It is a 1959 (I think) Fiat Abarth 750 Berlina. It is very rusty but has all of the trim bits. It is missing the engine :-( but the tranny and most everything else is still on/in the car.
Any info on this car would be welcome. Restore? Part out? rebody it?
Check it out.
I dunno, but it'd be a good candidate for "Ran When Parked"
If you can restore it I would, as original Abarths are worh more than standard 600's, but it would really need the engine, and that's going to be hard to find. However, the other Abarth specific stuff could be sold for probably way more than you bought the car for.
Brett: Nice find. I would transfer the Abarth bits to your other 600 since the provenance is likely poor at best anyway. Does the rear deck show signs of ever being propped open. The other plan would be to sell off the Abarth specific parts to finance your 600 restoration to a city commuter car. As for an engine, the A112 with the serial numbers filed off was a common cheater engine for the under 1 litre class and is period correct (in a way).
Cheers Ron
I think that a transfer of parts may be the plan. Here is a photo of the engine bay. Notice the spots where the hood props were. I think that they may be with the car in a box.
Brett
How can I get these photos into the ran when parked section? Brett
Brett: The condition of the floor is not a big issue if the cross frames are sound. My buddy's 750 Zagato had everything rotted below the aluminum body and in the passenger area. He had to have much of it rebuilt including cross frames.
Cheers Ron
The story that I have is that the car was purchased new in the Maryland area and the original owner drove it for about 35k when the engine locked up. He pulled the engine for repair but the repair never happened. The gentleman passed away expectantly and never finished the rebuild. He was only in his early 30s. His father kept the car and refused repeated attempts to purchase the car.
Finally, the guy that I got the car from succeeded in buying the car. This was in the early 90s, that is when the car made its way to east TN. The was moved around and kept safely in storage. I saw the car about 6-7 years ago and always kept it in the back of my head. When I found the black 600, my interest was sparked and I tracked the guy down. The rest is history. Brett
Also, most Abarths were built from kits anyway, very few were constructed as entire cars. If you transfer all the bits from that one to the black shell, you aren't doing anything much different than how they were done back in the day.
I researched converting my old '61 to Abarth specs a few years ago, and in the end, wanted to use the A112 motor. It seemed like the best and cheapest way to make "big" power. Some of the Abarth specific parts however were very expensive, but you seem to have a large portion of that with your car.
I am interested in buying it , please PM me
Beaulieu
Were there any red Abarth 750 Berlinas? If I rebody this car, I would like to use my existing Fiat 600 and it was originally red.
thanks
Brett 
