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Solved - NEH 2345: Colli Fiat 500 Topolino Barchetta - 1936
« on: January 16, 2013, 07:32:50 AM »
Identify this car and from when it dates correctly for 1 point:

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Re: NEH 2345
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2013, 05:08:43 AM »
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Re: NEH 2345
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2013, 07:50:45 AM »
Colli Fiat Topolino?
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Re: NEH 2345
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2013, 08:02:25 AM »
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Re: NEH 2345
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2013, 08:53:08 AM »
Colli Fiat Topolino?

No!
I found the same car as: "Fiat 500A Topolino Corsa Barchetta body by Colli"... the original chassis is from 1936, the body from the 50s...
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Re: NEH 2345
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2013, 08:54:56 AM »
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Re: NEH 2345
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2013, 09:22:58 AM »
Thanks!
I've had a look at that site and it seems pretty unequivocal about what it is!
But if you enter the original picture I used into Google Search by Image, as I often do to find a bit more info,  it takes you to a completely different (German) site which calls it something else!
I'll take your word for it though and call it solved.
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Re: NEH 2345
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2013, 09:32:11 AM »
Thanks!
I've had a look at that site and it seems pretty unequivocal about what it is!
But if you enter the original picture I used into Google Search by Image, as I often do to find a bit more info,  it takes you to a completely different (German) site which calls it something else!
I'll take your word for it though and call it solved.
Ok, I see the car called a Siata 208, but it surely isn't that... it's too small and Siata bodies where generally less rough...
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Re: Solved - NEH 2345: Colli Fiat 500 Topolino Barchetta - 1936
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2013, 05:49:40 PM »
I couldn't remember this car and, sincerely I was completely wrong way going, perhaps because I'm quite sure that this barchetta has been restored with lot of fantasy so that it looks a Colli '40s product just for a little.
Anyway, from the plate I found a note in my archive were I registered this car as a Fiat 500A elab. Siata; I can't remember the source of this note.
I'm pretty sure this car is not a proper Siata, perhaps it has a Siata head.