Author Topic: Solved: PN #1470 -- Mahringer-Fiat 1100, 1952-1953 (Read 1846 times)

pnegyesi · « **on:** September 20, 2020, 07:25:41 AM »

I suspect the guy who raced it, built it - so identify the donor and the driver (probably builder as well) for a point

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #1 on:** September 20, 2020, 10:39:08 AM »

I love this!

pnegyesi · « **Reply #2 on:** September 27, 2020, 11:13:16 AM »

Experts?

fromwien · « **Reply #3 on:** September 27, 2020, 12:06:32 PM »

Mahringer-Fiat 1100, Kurt Mahringer, 1952-53, Austrian racer.....

pnegyesi · « **Reply #4 on:** September 27, 2020, 12:23:37 PM »

easy for you

fromwien · « **Reply #5 on:** September 27, 2020, 05:18:19 PM »

I enjoy Austriam Puzzle-Cars... Thank you for the point...

knewit · « **Reply #6 on:** September 29, 2020, 06:54:02 AM »

I think it is a pre war SIATA-Fiat raced after the war in Austria. Such car drove at the 1940 Mille Miglia or the Pescara sports car race. In Germany Reichenwallner had such a car in 1938 and Schmidt from Potsdam too.

pnegyesi · « **Reply #7 on:** October 04, 2020, 11:56:13 PM »

knewit, do you have a picture of a similar Siata-Fiat? Thanks

knewit · « **Reply #8 on:** October 17, 2020, 05:39:39 AM »

Here is a picture of a 1938 Fiat 500 Siata Grand Sport Zagato Mahringer's car is modified in middle part.

pnegyesi · « **Reply #9 on:** October 17, 2020, 04:19:37 PM »

very nice, thank you

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #10 on:** October 18, 2020, 03:46:26 PM »

The car today:

pnegyesi · « **Reply #11 on:** November 27, 2024, 12:09:46 AM »

Can I be curious here? I just saw this photo and would like to learn more about this car. It may have been a subject of a puzzle here. I know what the information table next to the car says, but I am sure there's more to this story. So who can tell me more about this car? 1st point goes to the one who identifies the place and the basic info, but for more details I am willing to hand out a 2nd point too

pnegyesi · « **Reply #12 on:** January 18, 2025, 01:20:08 AM »

Experts?

thorax · « **Reply #13 on:** January 19, 2025, 08:43:04 AM »

Fiat 500 A underneath?

pnegyesi · « **Reply #14 on:** January 19, 2025, 10:40:56 AM »

maybe, all I know it is Fiat-based

BERTRAND · « **Reply #15 on:** January 19, 2025, 02:53:24 PM »

This Fiat is on display in the Automuseum in Engstingen, Germany. The car is listed as Fiat Sport 1942 and it also says that it is the most exceptional car in the museum.

Lavrakas · « **Reply #16 on:** January 19, 2025, 04:00:16 PM »

It's not entirely unlike the rebodied 508D found in a Belgian scrapyard and usually attributed to Bidee or De Mola.

pnegyesi · « **Reply #17 on:** January 19, 2025, 05:15:08 PM »

Bertrand got a point and I leave the puzzle open. Lavrakas, to me the two cars look different. Thanks for trying though

marmer · « **Reply #18 on:** January 19, 2025, 07:42:39 PM »

I am trying to find more about it, but the only source seems to be the sign at the museum in Engstingen. Apparently this is the only survivor of three prototypes and was restored by a collector named Siegfried Stotz who found it in a scrap yard near Vienna. The Stotz collection later moved to the Engstingen museum.

pnegyesi · « **Reply #19 on:** January 20, 2025, 12:54:30 AM »

very interesting, thank you

BERTRAND · « **Reply #20 on:** January 20, 2025, 04:52:02 AM »

Thank you for the point

pnegyesi · « **Reply #21 on:** January 26, 2025, 02:44:01 AM »

Let's involve more voices

Hiawatha · « **Reply #22 on:** January 26, 2025, 09:22:08 AM »

I find rather doubtful that Fiat had the time to build a sports car in 1942, with Italy involved in a rather difficult war. They had enough problems in building lorries, aircraft etc.
The base car is certainly a Fiat 508c or 1100A (pedals, gearchange lever, handbrake)
Seats, wheel trims and rear lights are modern additions, the instruments are also rather doubtful and the rear view mirror is not in keeping with the car. The steering wheel is fitted upside down.
On top of that the car looks rather ugly and amateurish..
I add that these are my personal opinions and I stand to be corrected.

grobmotorix · « **Reply #23 on:** January 27, 2025, 11:47:51 AM »

This car reminds me of the Mahringer Fiat 1100 Special, that raced in Austria in the late 1940s - which would fit into the Austrian trace mentioned before.

pnegyesi · « **Reply #24 on:** January 27, 2025, 11:55:49 AM »

Oooh
And now we have it. It was my own puzzle years ago, the Mahringer where Fabrizio/Paul Jaray posted the photo of the car from the museum. Now we came full circle

Another point to you and now I merge the topics.

Also the museum has been closed last year so the car will be sold soon

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Author Topic: Solved: PN #1470 -- Mahringer-Fiat 1100, 1952-1953 (Read 1846 times)