Specifications
Year: 1972
Make: Fiat
Model: 124 Spider Abarth Rally
Version: Stradale
Number: 48th
Date of Manufacture: November 1972
Chassis: 124CSA 0062048
Engine: 132 AC4 000 43000917
Color: red
Factory installed options:
Stradale-specified:
Body: black fiberglass engine hood and trunk lid, Perspex-windowed hardtop, alloy doors, rear roll bar and 970kg dry weight
Engine: 1,756 cc, in-line 4, DOHC, Weber 44 IDF carbureted
Transmission: 5 sp by Colotti, single dry plate clutch
Suspension: strut type (F: coil springs, upper wishbone lower arm, R: fully independent), McPherson
Brakes: discs all around
Interior: bucket seats by Recaro, revised dashboard
Specially ordered:
Engine: Abarth performance kit providing for 9.8:1 comp., 178bhp@6000rpm
Registration: Greek FIVA (Federation Internationale Vehicules Anciens)
Owners: 4
Odometer reading: 02872
History:
This is the 48th out of the few original 124 Spider Stradale that were manufactured in Abarth’s plant between 1972 and 1974 in order to homologate the 124 Spider Rally version. Interestingly, this particular Stradale was produced on November of 1972, the very month that Abarth successfully achieved that homologation.
Apart from the rare and most desirable Weber option (obsolete in 1974 Stradales), this vehicle bears the even rarer Abarth-installed performance kit option providing for an increased power to 124 Rally specs of 178bhp@6000rpm.
This 48th Stradale was owned by a factory employee prior to being sold in 2000 to a Greek, world-renowned professional rally driver who in turn sold it to a well-known competitor of his. Ironically, the car was never raced, only to be maintained with utmost respect for it being an icon of the Fiat-Abarth collaboration.
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