{"id":25191,"date":"2018-10-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/asa-1000gt-and-1100gt\/"},"modified":"2020-10-04T11:50:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T11:50:23","slug":"asa-1000gt-and-1100gt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/asa-1000gt-and-1100gt\/","title":{"rendered":"ASA 1000GT and 1100GT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Car fans will know that the sports car maker Ferrari exists for 71 years now as an independent brand. Initially, the team around company founder Enzo Ferrari only built race cars of which some were roadworthy and all had one thing in common: a V12 engine under the hood. From the end of the 1950s some technicians of Ferrari worked on a much smaller sports car in order to be able to serve this market, which, for example, Porsche with the 356 successfully tilled. Originally there should even have been plans to offer this vehicle in the official Ferrari program.

For the first prototype used the purchased chassis of a Fiat 1200 with a unique Pininfarina body in which the first stage of construction of the new four-cylinder engine was built at that time with 850 cubic centimeters displacement. This originated in its technical features of the three-liter Colombo-V12 from the Ferrari 250 and fittingly got the internal name ‘854’ for its exact displacement, which corresponds to exactly one-third of the twelve-cylinder engine. Until the start of production, the engine was increased to one liter of displacement. As the completely unmarked prototype was spotted often with Enzo Ferrari behind the wheel, it quickly got the nickname ‘Ferrarina’. At the end of the year’s press conference in 1959, the company boss publicly presented a prototype of the four-cylinder engine for the first time. In the background further developments took place, including a custom-made tubular chassis, made by Giotto Bizzarrini with double wishbones at front and a live rear axle with traling arms as well as bespoke Dunlop disc brakes all around and a sleek Bertone body. By the way, this was drawn by the young Giorgetto Giugiaro, who was working for Bertone in Turin. There, on the Bertone booth of the Motor Show in Turin, also the world premiere of the vehicle took place in 1961. As no decision had yet been made at that time whether the car would be called Ferrari or not, a yellow rectangle with the blue inscription ‘1000’ was shown on the bonnet.<\/p>\n\n\n

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