The Autobianchi Stellina car spider engine and rear-wheel drive produced by Autobianchi (already then a subsidiary of Fiat) 1963-1965.
The Stellina was the first car built in the Italian Serie fiberglass : the first was the obvious merit inattacabilita rust, light weight and ease of construction.
The chassis was the so-called "boxed" in stainless steel, the pieces of fiberglass applied to various guides.
On this basis, several advised against buying a car that had a great value, however, from the point stylistically and even mechanical, since explored a new philosophy in the automotive field, but, as the great revolutions, will be understood only later.
The price was then prohibitive, so as to direct the marketing ladies rich and wealthy, because the fiberglass can not find success among Italians who expected more from a car that cost 993,000 lire.
Autobianchi Stellina (1963)
Car interior
The production, however, was standardized as all the spiders of the time: canvas roof with rear window plastic, glossy colors contrasting with the interior, interiors leather, brown or black. Among the options: radio, whitewall tires, luggage rack chrome pipes, muffler Abarth, Borrani wire wheels. The first series was produced in 343 copies.
After two years, since the decline in sales, you think that the lack of success was due to the lack of power due to 29 horses.
Then the Autobianchi try to adjust the Stellina, presenting what would be the unofficially second series, as it would replace the production of the 750, and was produced in about 200 specimens: Stellina 800 . As the name suggests, the change was in the elaboration of the engine, with a slight increase in displacement to 792 cubic cm. However, the 800 cubic cm increase in the power of the car just 31.5 hp.
The Stellina in total was produced in only 502 copies . The rust still afflicts the platforms of sheet metal, and why is a car very difficult to find nowadays.
Autobianchi Stellina
