Topic: SOLVED FW #74 Volpini 1100 SS 1946

[fromwien]

Slim-Fit racer...
Please identify this car for one point

[fromwien]

Experts?

[mekubb]

Italian ?

[SACO]

Volpini 1100SS 1946 !

[fromwien]

Bravo! One more point for you!

[Paul Jaray]

This is not a Volpini...and to prove it, I can show you an encyclopedia where it was called...Volpini!
That was the origin of the mistake. It's an enciclopedia of the seventies, called Milleruote. The car was known like that when it was discovered in the late sixties, it but it's not.
It's was later correctly identified as a Zanussi.
It is now in Nicolis' Museum and you can read all its story in Zanussi's website.
It was built by Fioravante Zanussi with an Alfa Romeo 6c 1750 engine with two cilinders cut out (used in a previous siluro by Zanussi). The engine was later replaced by a BMW 319 and finally a Fiat 1100 unit.

[fromwien]

Here within the advertisement of my puzzle car...

[Paul Jaray]

Yes, it was for sale in the 80s as a Volpini and it had a Volpini badge too.
It was only much later they discovered it was indeed the nice Zanussi barchetta.
Italian sports cars are one of my big passion. I'm currently working on a big "book" where I collect all the info I have about each and every etceterini. It's almost done. More than 1000 pages and nearly 900 cars from Accossato to ...Zanussi.
Here you are the pages about Zanussi's and Volpini's cars.
It's quite rough, but there will be license plates, chassis & engine numbers and all the pictures of all the different versions of each car.

[fromwien]

I really appreciate your great work. I am convinced that this will be an excellent book that I would very much like to put in my library.
I just hope that the Mille Miglia Register will also react to the new findings. And indicates past mistakes of incorrect described entries. See attachments....