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Title: Solved -PJ535- Alberto Pesaresi's Topolino-based Biposto
Post by: Paul Jaray on June 10, 2013, 03:43:19 PM

This one should keep you busy...
What is this?

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: targhediferro on June 10, 2013, 04:08:13 PM

Fiat 500 B (topolino), based. Is it a one-off?

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: Paul Jaray on June 10, 2013, 04:14:26 PM

So far so good.
I don't know how many were built, but I suspect it's a one-off.

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: targhediferro on June 10, 2013, 05:02:54 PM

Did it take part in the Targa Florio?

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: Paul Jaray on June 10, 2013, 05:13:22 PM

I don't know...I've just a name  :-\ .

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: targhediferro on June 11, 2013, 03:13:28 AM

As you well know, plenty of home-made barchettas were built on Fiat 500 base soon after the end of WWII, and they are often very similar each other.
I found a picture of a car that has quite a similitude with quiz car, is it from the same builder?  It's a Fiat 750 (500 base), Pini, from 1947.  I guessed that quiz car was a 500 B (so from 1948) because of the light colour of the wheels, but it could be a 500 A as well.

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: Paul Jaray on June 11, 2013, 06:11:22 AM

Not the name I have...and you are right, I know it's Topolino-based, nothing more (like the version or the year)

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: targhediferro on June 12, 2013, 12:49:41 AM

Perhaps De Luca?

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: Paul Jaray on June 12, 2013, 08:02:25 AM

 Not De Luca.

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: thorax on June 12, 2013, 05:10:23 PM

Beccaria?

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Post by: faksta on June 13, 2013, 02:11:34 AM

Could it be Macchi of Varese? The car I've seen by them looks different, but the shape of the grille and the badge look similar.

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: Paul Jaray on June 13, 2013, 03:55:40 PM

Not Beccaria or Macchi.

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: targhediferro on June 18, 2013, 01:47:37 AM

I saw about 100 different barchettas without finding this one. Is it perhaps from Sicily? If yes by Minoia?

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: Paul Jaray on June 18, 2013, 02:47:42 PM

Not by Minoia.
I don't think it's from Sicily.
Hope this helps:

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: targhediferro on June 21, 2013, 09:56:05 AM

Fondi?

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: Paul Jaray on June 21, 2013, 12:48:14 PM

Not Fondi.

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: Carnut on July 04, 2013, 06:32:13 PM

Is it a well-known constructor, like Giannini?

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: Paul Jaray on July 05, 2013, 03:24:32 AM

I must confess I've never heard of him.
It is not mentioned in 'La sport e i sui artigiani' or in any books I saw so far.
This picture comes from his son and the caption says more or less "my father Alberto ____'s topolino"
His name was Alberto.
Hope it helps.

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Post by: pnegyesi on July 05, 2013, 03:42:00 AM

Mio padre, Alberto Pesaresi, costruttore negli anni 50: Biposto base Topolino Fiat

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: Paul Jaray on July 05, 2013, 03:50:11 AM

I tried myself to google those words in Italiano and I thought the car wasn't there!
Well done again Pal, a point for you!

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: Hiawatha on July 05, 2013, 04:32:08 AM

Well done indeed, Pal ..
There is one thing I can't understand,however. AN 4515 licence plate was issued in early 1934,well before the first 500A appeared in 1936. Any thoughts?

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: targhediferro on July 05, 2013, 06:21:19 AM

I suppose it could be AN 14515....in my archive I have another 500 barchetta, with plate AN 14514, but I cannot remember where I saw it.

Title: Re: PJ - 535
Post by: Paul Jaray on July 05, 2013, 04:59:45 PM

I hope you'll find it back.
In the meantime, point added and topic moved!