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Old 04-17-2007, 09:16 PM
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Abarth Chassis
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Originally Posted by 2000 touring sp View Post
http://ferrariexperts.com/abarth.htm
This page is from above mentioned site.
Can anybody confirm the info, that the Disco Volante used an Abarth frame.
Personally I am of the opinion that someone has mixed the Disco Volante with the 750 Competitzione
I certainly can't. I don't see any mention of the Disco Volante in Pat's Abarth book just skimming and it does not have an index. The only mention that I see as a cross-over between Abarth and Alfa are two cars built in 1957, the Alfa engined one, a record setter, along with a discussion of how Abarth changed the Giulietta engine to perform better. The other car had a 750cc engine that was the same as in the 1956 Bertone cars. Both cars had similar bodies which resembled the Bertone car with the addition of proper tail fins, smaller on the Abarth engined car, and larger on the Alfa engined car.

For further information or how the Alfa engine was changed by Abarth and Abarth racing see pgs. 35 - 39 of Pat's Abarth book.
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