1954 Abarth 207A - $199,000 - Paris, FRANCE - 1954 Abarth 207A Racing Car, During the early 1950’s, Carlo Abarth’s “Abarth & Co.” was mostly building individually-conceived and financed specials that were intended primarily to be “magnets” to his lucrative business selling speed equipment and appearance accessories for otherwise rather normal cars from major Italian car manufacturers such as Alfa Romeo, Fiat and Lancia, along with Ferrari, Maserati and others.
1949 racing appearances of the new “Abarth” cars continued to acknowledge the Cisitalia origins as the cars first wore the Cisitalia name on the nose with “Squadra Abarth” on the sides of the body. A genuinely new chassis was designed and built 1950 for a new Abarth called the 205. Two cars were built early 1950 and one or two more as the “need” became apparent. The first finished car appeared March 1950 at the Giro di Sicilia and the second appeared shortly thereafter. Both of those cars raced on the Mille Miglia in April 1950 with what is presumed to be the first car having distinctive aerodynamic modifications front and rear with added-on lightweight body panels.
The Abarth 207/A grew out of a market in the USA that was perceived by the Italian-car importer, Tony Pompeo. He saw a demand for a sports-racing car in the 1100cc category that would be more modern and hopefully more robust than the wonderfully nimble but somewhat fragile Siata 300BC-Fiat 1100cc cars that he was importing and selling beginning 1952.
Chassis 002, was extensively raced in USA before send back to Italy for a Pebble Beach Restoration
Fia papers, Elligible All Events, even the Grand Prix Historique of Monaco as this car was accepted to race 4 years ago.