ABARTH 1100 SPORT BY GHIA IS A RETRO BEAUTY FROM THE JETSONS-ERA

The marriage of Abarth's brilliant performance with red blooded Italian design language, 1953 Abarth 1100 Sport by Ghia is as beautiful as a car.

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Italians have an exquisite taste in design and beauty. Once you get a sense of it, things become quite obvious as to why their designs are hard to beat. A classic example for the same has to be the 1953 Abarth 1100 Sport – that was essentially a performance oriented car in the 1950’s with a classic design twist to it.

The 1953 Abarth 1100 was built by Karl Abarth who was a motorcycle racing champion and an equally talented engineer. After tasting considerable amount of success in building motorcycle exhaust systems, he wanted try his hand at building performance cars. His initial efforts in building a performance car, lead him to create the Abarth 205 which was essentially based on the Cisitalia 204.

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