Equipment
Kenwood CD. Mediocre paint and interior, dull bright trim. Rather remarkably original and complete including its bizarre tri wing spinner hubcaps on 12 wheels and myriad details often lost in vintage race car preparation and restoration. Full Abarth spec 750cc engine with Abarth crank, cam, carb and Nardi intake. Run in the 1995 Liege Rome Liege rally, displayed at Pebble Beach in 1999 and Harry Newton award winner at Greenwich in 2003. A largely original and sound car that could have had more thorough treatment.
Market commentary
Arguably the most coveted and accordingly ambitiously pursued car at Greenwich this weekend the condition might engender some quibbling over the price, but in the end its a stunning little rocket. Impressively original and complete it needs nothing to be used and to amaze onlookers (and vintage race competitors) with its pace. Even at that, however, the price with commission is aggressive, even for those who like me remember the Roosevelt racing teams Abarths camped out in a Montauk Highway garage during the Bridgehampton Road Races in the Fifties.