{"id":41473,"date":"2015-08-14T11:02:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T10:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/?p=41473"},"modified":"2022-06-14T11:15:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T10:15:05","slug":"abarth-scorpion-prototipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/abarth-scorpion-prototipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Abarth Scorpion Prototipo"},"content":{"rendered":"

We love Abarth<\/strong><\/p>\n

There’s something about the cars the Scorpion brand produced that makes you think of oil smelling workshops, the passion of road racing and charismatic swarthy little Italian men who can handle a spanner as well as the pasta maker.<\/p>\n

And this prototype from 1971 is about as Abarth as Abarth can be.<\/p>\n

The company made a series of test cars and specials all throughout the sixties and seventies, some of which went on to seed full production cars across the Italian industry – but many, like this one we think, remained just a simple and singular manifestation of a few good ideas and a few hundred man hours in a workshop.<\/p>\n

It’s going to be for sale at Auction at the RM event in London in September, and there’s not a detailed description on their site as yet – but we love the simple incongruity of the car, with it’s little carb-loaded lump crammed into the tail section.<\/p>\n

The colour scheme accentuates the simple panel work and that interior is about as man cave-like as it’s possible to be. You can smell the musky cologne but the car looks humorous, cheeky, irreverent.<\/p>\n

And that’s what we think of when we think about Abarth.<\/p>\n\n\t\t