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Old 05-28-2007, 07:36 PM
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Abarth Chassis
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Originally Posted by tubut View Post
Yech -- This translation is even worse than my Italian!
Here's how I read the significant portion of the text:



I have a hunch that the meaning of the first clause may go as far as:
"It was difficult to get Satta to admit that the chassis design was changed from mine."
but my Italian is not good enough to be sure about that -- especially when it comes to understanding Busso.
Ruedi, your translation is far better than mine....I'd have to do it the dictionary by word method and I'm not up to it. Pat could sit and read and translate at the same time. Oh, where is that DSL to heaven when we need it, although, I'm sure there are some other competent translators on the bb.

FWIW, this is the Babelfish translation from Italian to English of that paragraph, and I'd say you came darn close with "lattice" and the meaning or interpretation since "attice" makes no sense:

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It was decided to insist for the moment on the 3500. It was not easy for me to obtain from Satta that the chassis, to attice, came redesigned from mine; decisive it was the support that Hruska gave to my demand. The execution of the chassis prototype was entrusted to the GILCO and for the carrozza the Touring was chosen; all that happened to December of 1953.
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