Alfa inspiration: 1954 Fiat 500C Barchetta by Trevisan

ScreenShot_20160330191501

We know this car: we’ve seen it for sale in Italy about six years ago at a dealer in the north-east of Italy. Then it disappeared and now it has migrated in Germany, where it’s actually for sale.

TrevisanTopolino1954Barchetta ScreenShot_20160330191611

This barchetta was built by Trevisan, a coachbuilder located in the north-east of Italy: we know very few about him nor we can’t find anything in our literature, even in the one more specialized. What’s clear beyond any doubt is that the Alfa Romeo Disco Volante was the inspiration of this Fiat 500 Barchetta.

ScreenShot_20160330191544

Watching the period photo it seems that the car hasn’t changed since then: the wheels, the front grill, the shape, everything looks original. On the other side we’re pretty sure that the Hellebore steering wheel and the gauges are at least 10 years younger items and that they don’t belong to the original equipment. Find it for sale at €79,000 (today $89,500) here in Düren, Germany. Thanks to Marco for this suggestion.

Advertisement

Leave a comment

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.