Topic: Solved - NEH 3476: SIATA 500 Super Testa Sport Spider - 1940 chassis Vignale 1950s body

[Carnut]

Is this Audi's new forthcoming convertible sports car?!
No, but you can earn 1 point by telling me what it is, from when it dates, who is reputed to have bodied it and what its chassis number is:

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[58_spyder]

Please do not sell this one to Audi......it is a Siata. It wants to be 300 BC or an 208, but in real life it is a bit later,it is a Siata Spring that is based on the Fiat 850 (68-75)

waht it wants to be:

[Carnut]

That's not what I have it as; I have a SIATA something else..
I'll have to dig into my sources and see if they are correct.

[Carnut]

I've checked into this and my information seems to be correct, so I'm afraid it's not what you guessed.
I now have a bit more information about it too so I've changed the requirements for the point a bit!

[58_spyder]

Well it is not in my Fornoi book on the Siata. I was Lucky to sit in a Daina Sport Coupe yesterday.  My first impression was that it was a rebodied spring that was resembling a 200BC.
It is an earlier one, supposedly bodied by Vignale 500 Super Testa  Sport, currently advertised on Anamera (one of 7 Siata's currently for sale on anamera).

Production 1940 Chassis No 072869 (frame number) as Fiat Topolino Transformabile
With Engine no 073274 according the registration papers
Siata Super Testa engine installed; time not exactly known
Registration no in Italy RM 117284
According the old owner:
Aluminium body made by Vignale arround 1955
1988 sold to Tiziano Vago
1991 ASI Certificate no 5909
1994 participation Mille Miglia no. 120 Vago-Niggi (187th total)
New Topolino C engine no 073274
1996 sold to T. Gelmini
1997 sold to germany W. Schäfer
2004 sold to U. Heusel
Nut and bold restoration von 2005 to 2012 with new Topolino A engine no 077611 with Super Testa head.
 

[Carnut]

That's the little beauty!
Well done.

[58_spyder]

It was a coincidence that I checked the Siata's that are currently for sale, and found this one. The book that I have from Fornai did not have this car in it. The super testa is well described, but this model was not pictured, and its model is clearly post 1950, not a 40 model. as the body was beleieved to be made in 1955, it is very much a mixture of the 300BC and the 208, which are gorgeous spiders.
According to my info some Siata Springs were later converted into barchetta models, I first believed this was one of them as well.