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Title: Solved - NEH 2925: Bertone Fiat 1500C - 1941
Post by: Carnut on August 28, 2013, 07:22:38 AM
What's this, by whom and from when - for 1 point?:

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Title: Re: NEH 2925
Post by: Carnut on September 04, 2013, 04:11:37 AM
Experts?
Title: Re: NEH 2925
Post by: serra on September 04, 2013, 04:43:34 AM
I have got it as a  Fiat 1500 C by Bertone year 1941.
Title: Re: NEH 2925
Post by: Carnut on September 04, 2013, 06:27:13 AM
Quote from: serra on September 04, 2013, 04:43:34 AM
I have got it as a  Fiat 1500 C by Bertone year 1941.

That's the one.
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 2925: Bertone Fiat 1500C - 1941
Post by: als15 on September 04, 2013, 01:25:08 PM
Styiling by Mario Revelli di Beaumont (one of his worst, however, IMO).
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 2925: Bertone Fiat 1500C - 1941
Post by: Iluvatar on September 05, 2013, 03:35:26 AM
A sister car... on a more exclusive chassis...
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 2925: Bertone Fiat 1500C - 1941
Post by: Carnut on September 05, 2013, 04:16:10 AM
Mario must have been pleased with it..!
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 2925: Bertone Fiat 1500C - 1941
Post by: als15 on September 06, 2013, 03:56:56 PM
Do you really like them? IMO, they are really unbalanced and not so elegant compared with other contemporary cars (also from Revelli himself).
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 2925: Bertone Fiat 1500C - 1941
Post by: Carnut on September 06, 2013, 05:16:50 PM
Quote from: als15 on September 06, 2013, 03:56:56 PM
Do you really like them? IMO, they are really unbalanced and not so elegant compared with other contemporary cars (also from Revelli himself).

I don't find them attractive, no.  But they are interesting, and it's always difficult to criticise a design from another era from our point of view.  We know now the direction design took, but this was wartime and it has to be seen in context.  The position of the lights and the front, for instance, could only be Italian and foresaw the future; British cars of the period would all have featured separate headlamps stuck on stalks!

Even geniuses like Revelli di Beaumont went up blind allies sometimes.