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Title: Solved: Wendax 1451 - Fiat 1400 Brasil Cabriolet by Stabilimenti Farina
Post by: Wendax on December 22, 2014, 01:39:10 AM
Elegant.

For one point, please respond and identify this car and its coachbuilder.
Title: Re: Wendax 1451
Post by: Wendax on December 29, 2014, 02:29:40 AM
up
Title: Re: Wendax 1451
Post by: als15 on December 29, 2014, 08:24:27 AM
It should be a Fiat 1400 bodied by Bertone.
Title: Re: Wendax 1451
Post by: Wendax on December 29, 2014, 08:41:44 AM
It is a Fiat 1400, but not by Bertone.
Title: Re: Wendax 1451
Post by: als15 on December 29, 2014, 08:53:08 AM
You are right, it's coachbuilt by Stabilimenti Farina. I never realized before how similar is it to the 1st Bertone St.Leger. Both by Michelotti, of course...
Title: Re: Wendax 1451
Post by: Wendax on December 29, 2014, 09:07:28 AM
Yes, coachwork by Stabilimenti Farina. Locked for you to find its name.
Title: Re: Wendax 1451
Post by: als15 on December 29, 2014, 09:21:45 AM
It was called "Cabriolet Partenope" (latin name of Naples).
Title: Re: Wendax 1451
Post by: Wendax on December 29, 2014, 09:33:24 AM
Not the name I have, still locked.
Title: Re: Wendax 1451
Post by: als15 on December 29, 2014, 09:37:43 AM
My source is the period magazine Motor Italia, that should be very reliable.
Does your use a different definition as "Convertibile" (also often used by Farina for his open bodies) instead of "Cabriolet" or the issue is about "Partenope"?
Title: Re: Wendax 1451
Post by: Wendax on December 29, 2014, 09:45:34 AM
I took the picture from a Stab. Farina brochure, and there it is called Cabriolet 5 Posti "XXX" Fiat 1400 (don't count the Xs).
Title: Re: Wendax 1451
Post by: als15 on December 29, 2014, 09:50:32 AM
My last guess is "Brasile", that according to Motor Italia should have been the coupé version...
Title: Re: Wendax 1451
Post by: Wendax on December 29, 2014, 09:55:10 AM
I'll accept that although my source says Brasil without "e".  ;)

One more point for you.
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 1451 - Fiat 1400 Brasil Cabriolet by Stabilimenti Farina
Post by: als15 on December 29, 2014, 09:58:48 AM
Very good. Not just for my 150th point, but also because so I'm able to fix a little mistake in my coachbuilt-Fiats knowledge-base.
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 1451 - Fiat 1400 Brasil Cabriolet by Stabilimenti Farina
Post by: Wendax on December 29, 2014, 10:07:14 AM
It has been a pleasure for me.  ;)