{"id":84506,"date":"2021-11-16T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T15:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=84506"},"modified":"2021-11-29T09:53:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T09:53:56","slug":"abarth-simca-1300-gt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/abarth-simca-1300-gt\/","title":{"rendered":"Abarth-Simca 1300 GT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Abarth – this traditional Italian brand is nowadays mainly associated with performance-enhanced Fiat models. It all began with carburetors and exhaust systems developed by Austrian motorcycle racer Karl “Carlo” Abarth in Bologna in 1949. Soon the company moved its headquarters to Turin. In addition to tuning kits for Fiat 500, 600, 1100 or Multipla, Abarth soon built independent racing cars and sports cars in small series. The company relied on external coachbuilders such as Allemano, Boano, Bertone, Ellena, Ghia, Pininfarina, Vignale and Zagato. In addition, there were also smaller coachbuilders who gave the cars matching exteriors. One of them was Sibona-Basano from Turin. Pietro Sibona and the brothers Elio and Emilio Basano founded this company in 1962. The brothers, their father Walter Basano and Pietro Sibona had already worked on vehicle designs at Boano, Frua, Centro Stile Simca and for Ghia and Vignale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cooperation between Abarth and Simca<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Quite simultaneously with the founding of Sibona-Basano, the French brand Simca approached Abarth. The French brand wanted a collaboration to demonstrate the sporting capabilities of the Simca 1000. This was intended to further increase sales. For this purpose, they supplied the platform including engines. However, Abarth’s engineer Luciano Fochi developed an increase in displacement to 1.3 liters and twin-cams, which boosted output up to 101 kW\/138 hp. The manual four-speed transmission, suspension and steering were taken over unchanged from the Simca 1000. For the bodywork, Abarth contacted Sibona-Basano, where plastic bodies for the Abarth-Fiat 1300 OT were already being built at the time. For the Simca sports car, on the other hand, Abarth decided to use light-alloy bodies. The design came from Mario Coluccio, who was under contract to Abarth.<\/p>\n\n\n

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