Topic: Puzzle like it's 1699 - Fiat 1500 6c by Garavini

[Otto Puzzell]

Just a bump before I go...

[Allemano]

Just a bump before I go...

[Otto Puzzell]

Here you go....

[Allemano]

Thanks!
I have it as Fiat 1500 6C by Carrozz. Garavini.

[Otto Puzzell]

Hooray! 

[Bill Murray]

Hi All:

Well, my first post on my first day and I am bringing this one back from the dead if that is allowed.

For the past 10 years or so, I have been doing ID work on several military history forums which is an Internet offshoot of my sort of doing the same thing for authors of books on military wheeled vehicles of all nations 1935-1945 for a number of years before that.

Anyway the subject Fiat appeared on a German site, posted by a Frenchman a few days ago.  I spent 6 hours going through my book, catalog and photo collection, the thousands of photos I have gotten off the internet and not a little Googling.

I finally got a hit on Wiki dealing with Italian coachbuilders and followed some of the links dealing with Pininfarina who did a lot of this type of body.  That lead to a sublink and there was a photo of the puzzle car with a caption saying that Pininfarina, Boneschi and Garavani did bodies on the Fiat 1500 chassis and of all things, the photo they chose was Garavani's body.

That lead to some more Googling and I found maybe 6-8 photos of this same car at a couple of auto shows in Italy.  One source, the magazine Gazoline, says it was a one off which is kind of neat.

Anyway, here is the photo I started with which shows the same car in the late war years in the Italian Tyrol in the tender care of the military.  I am now trying to track down the present owner, the photos were all from around 2010, in hopes of providing him or her an emailed copy of this WW2 photo.  I think they would enjoy it.
If any of you can help finding the owner, please jump right in.

Nice Forum you have here, I hope I can contribute over time.
Edit:  Sorry, every forum is different, I will resize photos next post.
Cheers
Bill Murray
Atlanta Ga USA

[Allemano]

You're not THAT Bill Murray of 'Ghostbusters' and 'Lost in Translation' fame, aren't you?   

[Bill Murray]

Hi Allemano:

No, my friend and you are probably the 2,500th person on the net to ask

I am a bit older than the actor and led a normal life until he became famous.
Not much bother until the coming of the Internet.  Because I have a business that required computers from the very early days, I have been on the Net since the 1990s.
In those early days, almost everyone used their real name and as web sites came into being, I just used my real name on all of them.  Now, most everyone uses a pseudonym but my real name has been out there for so long on so many forums I just keep it that way.

I have an old friend whose name is John Wayne and he has the same problem as I do as he still uses his real name on the Net also.

Back to the Fiat...........  You solved the puzzle, do you have any information about who the present owner may be???

Cheers
Bill

[Allemano]

Sorry I had some problems to remember this car at all..
It was on my HD for a while and think I have it from some auction site I can't recall anymore.

[Bill Murray]

OK, thanks.  I have contacted the Italian magazine as I said and maybe they can come up with something.

Totally aside from automobiles, although I try to track down some of the more interesting ones I have owned to give the new owner photos of the same car many years earlier, I have gotten from Google Earth photos of a number of homes I owned or leased in  the years 1969-1991 when I worked for Volvo and SAAB and I lived in many cities in the US, Sweden, Peru and Canada. 

I have contacted the present owner of the house in Sweden, I have the name of the last known owner of the house in Peru as well as Canada and I hope to get contact with them as well.  Also have gotten the name of the present owner of the house we owned in Connecticut, USA when I worked for SAAB.

Amazing what you can do on the Internet!!!!!!!!!

Cheers

Bill