Cavana Vetturetta Moto Guzzi 500 (1952)

[BERTRAND]

Please, identify this car and when

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[nicanary]

French ?

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Not french

[nicanary]

Well - it's probably a 500cc Formula 3 car in the early 1950s, but it seems to be a road race, which didn't take place in the UK. Is it Belgium ?

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Not Belgian

[nicanary]

from Europe ?

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Yes, that's european

[nicanary]

I suppose I must ask - from the UK ?

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...and you supposed bad nicanary, that's not british

[nicanary]

I found it, but not where I expected. It's a car called La Vettureta, built by Gino Cavanna in 1952 with a Moto Guzzi engine. It seems to have taken part in hillclimbs rather that F3 races.

[BERTRAND]

Correct, good job

[nicanary]

Thank you. I used all yesterday afternoon researching a certain well-known 500cc F3 site, and couldn't find it in entries for Scandinavia, Germany etc.. The I Googled for Italian motor-cycle-engined cars and it appeared.

You have found a source I didn't know about!