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Re: PJ - 682
« Reply #25 on: September 24, 2015, 05:35:36 AM »
Based on a Topolino then?
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Re: PJ - 682
« Reply #26 on: September 24, 2015, 05:42:53 AM »
Fiat 500c ;)
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Re: PJ - 682
« Reply #27 on: September 24, 2015, 06:24:10 AM »
I found a picture but it didn't say much about it..
It was shown at the 2004 Madonnino auto epoca.
Trying to find out a name...
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Re: PJ - 682
« Reply #28 on: September 24, 2015, 06:46:51 AM »
How on earth did you find it!?
Locked for you!
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Re: PJ - 682
« Reply #29 on: September 24, 2015, 07:29:48 AM »
Quote from: Paul Jaray on September 24, 2015, 06:46:51 AM
How on earth did you find it!?
Locked for you!

Lots of Googling for "Fiat Topolino Special" or "Fiat 500 Special"!
So far can find no other mention of the car but will carry on looking.
Neither Maremma Press not Fiorenzo Linicchi websites are any help.
I find these sites which show a picture of a car but absolutely no mention of what it is, not even its name in a caption, intensely annoying!
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Re: PJ - 682
« Reply #30 on: September 24, 2015, 07:37:11 AM »
It's probably of no help, but the license plate appears to be from 1955.
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Re: PJ - 682
« Reply #31 on: September 24, 2015, 09:17:57 AM »
Quote from: Hiawatha on September 24, 2015, 07:37:11 AM
It's probably of no help, but the license plate appears to be from 1955.

Thanks, but not really because this is a Fiat Topolino 500 C Barchetta built by Otto Semplici in 1957!
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Re: PJ - 682
« Reply #32 on: September 24, 2015, 09:27:28 AM »
 :applause: :applause: :applause:
This was really hard!
I live near the place where Otto built this car (GR stands for Grosseto, the city I live in) and I have never heard of him...
I've been several times to the Fiera del Madonnino and probably I met him too because he was there more than once with his Ford Model T (that I remember)...
There is not a single line about him in all my books but a magazine I just found in a pile I received not long ago.
Googling 'Otto Semplici', is virtually useless because it means 'Eight simple' and I read thousands of ...eight simple rules for this and that!
I couldn't find anything more myself knowing the answer!
Well done and a well deserved point for you!
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Re: PJ - 682
« Reply #33 on: September 24, 2015, 09:28:55 AM »
Could you send me the source of that pic (even via PM)?.
I'd like to know about the other barchetta too, that I saw some years ago:
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=6684.msg46642#msg46642

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Re: PJ - 682
« Reply #34 on: September 24, 2015, 09:34:48 AM »
This car is still in an Officina near my place...I thinkI'll pay a visit...
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Re: PJ - 682
« Reply #35 on: September 24, 2015, 10:10:46 AM »
I'll PM you the link.
Thank you for the opportunity to have some fun by posting such a puzzle straight to the Pro's!
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Re: PJ - 682
« Reply #36 on: September 24, 2015, 10:24:37 AM »
Quote from: Paul Jaray on September 24, 2015, 09:28:55 AM
I'd like to know about the other barchetta too, that I saw some years ago:
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=6684.msg46642#msg46642

The other barchetta is a Fiat Topolino 500 C Mille Miglia 1952, built by Enrico Vinciguerra.
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Re: PJ - 682
« Reply #37 on: September 24, 2015, 11:06:40 AM »
I've found a few more pictures.
Apparently the registration number is from 1955.
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Re: PJ - 682
« Reply #38 on: September 24, 2015, 02:44:07 PM »
Grazie!!  :thumbsup:
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Re: Solved -PJ682- Fiat Topolino 500 C Barchetta by Otto Semplici, 1957
« Reply #39 on: September 25, 2015, 06:38:26 PM »
bellissima!
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