Fiat 1100 Pininfarina

RobAMerc

Hi all,

My dad had a Pininfarina bodied Fiat 1100 at some stage (back in the 60's I think). I imagined it would be a very rare yoke but we spent some time online the other eve and could find nothing like it.

Does any of the aficionados here have any idea of any cars Pininfarina built for Fiat during this time? I realise they did coachbuilding for a lot of makes but surely not alot of Fiats.

Thanks in advance for any info.

Regards
Rob

PaulK_CCI

Pininfarina and Fiat cooperated a lot during the 50-60-70ies. If your dad owned a 1100 TV coupe or convertible, that would have been and still is a very rare car.

It was common for Coach builders to build one offs for the various car manufacturers like Fiat, Alfa, etc, and sometimes the company would embrace the design and put it into production.

Pininfarina designed the big Fiat saloons of the fifties and sixties: 1500/1800/2100 and 2300 Saloons, but the pretty 2300 Coupe was done by Ghia. He also penned the competitors in their day the Peugeot 404 and the BMC products: Cambridge/Wolseley and the likes. (company was called "Farina" at the time)
The most succesful Pininfarina designs for Fiat were the Coupe and Convertible version of the Fiat 124, especially the 124 spider was so succesful, it was still in production until 1985. Other well know Pininfarina Fiats are the Fiat Dino 'spider' (the Fiat Dino Coupe was designed by Bertone), then in the seventies Pininfarina designed 130 Saloon and Coupe.

Just a few off the top of me head

RobAMerc

Thanks Paul,

I'm thinking it was the TV coupe he had but I've only found reference to the 1200 TV. Very rare indeed - one of many cars he had we all wish he kept

Thanks again,
Rob

Mr. Presentable

Is this it?

Sourced: http://www.abarth-gmr.be/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=ac39974412ad9b2b86ce67a9f9c9db99&topic=2543.0

RobAMerc

thats a TV isn't it ?

No idea - I'll have to show it to him at the weekend.

Thanks
Rob

Dades

RobAMerc wrote: »

Does any of the aficionados here have any idea of any cars Pininfarina built for Fiat during this time?

I miss my old Fiat 124 Spider.

RobAMerc

Dades wrote: »

I miss my old Fiat 124 Spider.

Was that your car ? I used to see it around quite a bit at one point - not sure where I lived at the time ( Blackrock maybe ?)
Nice, I can see why you, miss it.

Rob

1948Wolseley

Or was it like this one, perhaps?

http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/at-the-garage/classics/1959-fiat-millecento/

(This one's a berlina)

Dades

RobAMerc wrote: »

Was that your car ? I used to see it around quite a bit at one point - not sure where I lived at the time ( Blackrock maybe ?)

Yeah, it lived in Blackrock for two years.
You couldn't miss it really - and not just because of the blue smoke!

RobAMerc

1948Wolseley wrote: »

Or was it like this one, perhaps?

http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/at-the-garage/classics/1959-fiat-millecento/

(This one's a berlina)

No - thats defo not it - I'm fairly sure thats not my dads cup of tea. Dunno why Lenno has one of those, I doubt they are that rare - I remember seeing them in Italy as a kid.

RS1700T

RobAMerc wrote: »

Hi all,

My dad had a Pininfarina bodied Fiat 1100 at some stage (back in the 60's I think). I imagined it would be a very rare yoke but we spent some time online the other eve and could find nothing like it.

Does any of the aficionados here have any idea of any cars Pininfarina built for Fiat during this time? I realise they did coachbuilding for a lot of makes but surely not alot of Fiats.



I believe there were at leat two coupes here , a friend owned one in the 70s , would the reg no have been LRI 806.

beanderb4

For me, this is the nicest Pininfarina designed Fiat. Even better because it has a 2.0l Dino V6 engine.
:D:D