Equipment
652/30hp, 4-speed, FPS alloy wheels, Abarth sump and sports exhaust.
Condition
#3 Good
Runs and drives well. Flaws not noticeable to passersby. Most common condition.
From the Maine Classic Car Museum Collection. Represented as one of about 150 left (although some sources say just 50 total were built), and as restored in 2005. Older respray with a few chips and scratches throughout. The wheels look sharp but they’re beat up and the lug nuts are rusty. Tidy older restored chassis. Good newer upholstery and door handles but the controls, switches and gauges are all original with significant age. A little rough around the edges but it’s a charming, attractive, and very rare car for not a lot of money.
Market commentary
Largely known (if at all) for its small displacement sports and racing cars and Formula Juniors in the 1950s, but before World War II it also built more pedestrian small cars and even electrically-powered trucks. By the 1960s Moretti was mostly building specially bodied cars with jazzed up Fiat underpinnings. A few other Moretti 500s have sold recently in the teens (this one sold here in 2019 for $17,920), so they all score sky-high on fun, rarity and cute-factor per dollar. At barely 10 grand for this one, though, it’s an off the charts value.