According to the seller, this car is based on the chassis (#22.9) and mechanicals of a 1946 Cisitalia-Abarth (204?) which crashed in Argentina and then rebuilt by Ugo Galicio coachworks in mid fifities until 1957 upon the commission of Renato Ciofi.

As most Cisitalia had the right hand drive, the seller specify that the lhd on this car that’s because mr. Ciofi typically updated in this way old race cars to be able to sell them in Argentina as road cars. Inside there is a nice instruments cluster along with a four spokes steering wheel, typical of ’40’s race cars.

An odd feature of this car are the wide channel rims which are unusual on little sports cars like this one (which should be pushed by a Fiat derived 1100 c.c. engine). Although the seller says that proof of the Cisitalia Abarth heritage can be found in the facts that the car has the ultra short wheelbase of 228.5 cm, a transverse leaf spring rear axle on the chassis that was experimented with by Cisitalia’s first constructor Dante Giacosa, and the chassis construction itself which pre-dates the 202 and it’s very similar to car #4, there is still much to study on this car to be sure to make a proper purchase. Find it for sale at €125,000 (today $ 165,000 o.b.o.) here in Holten, Netherlands.