Hi, does anyone know anything about the Sestriere just sold at Aguttes? The car was in Spain and has taken part in many revival events. It is fitted with an 850 GBC engine currently.
It is recorded by incomplete Abarth production records that chassis 758169 (whether or not the blue car is the same) was bodied by MECAT near the end of what was their largely "Double Bubble" production run of approximately 275 bodies prior to the almost 50 "Sestriere" examples that they made ... with some variations in certain details. The original paint color was "beige". It was first consigned during June 1960 to the Southern California dealer, Parkinson. After that, my studies show nothing until what seems likely to be its 1988 appearance leaving Spain. Unless that was a different car?
This is the car, I ended up purchasing it and have just got it back to the UK. I'm amazed that I have become the owner of a 750GT and I am now searching for any history, I've traced it back to Spain around 2017 and there is an image of a blue car with a similar engine cover detail to mine here in the forum.
The image(s) of the blue car in Spain almost certainly show your car? Ther is a chance that more than one car had what I call the "triangular pyramid" on the engine lid? The images came to me from Les Burd who found them among miscellaneous images that he went through after the death of our friend, Norbert McNamara. I beleive that the images went to Norbert from Franco Manetti. There are four images that seem to date from 1988 in Barcelona.
It is recorded by incomplete Abarth production records that chassis 758169 (whether or not the blue car is the same) was bodied by MECAT near the end of what was their largely "Double Bubble" production run of approximately 275 bodies prior to the almost 50 "Sestriere" examples that they made ... with some variations in certain details. The original paint color was "beige". It was first consigned during June 1960 to the Southern California dealer, Parkinson. After that, my studies show nothing until what seems likely to be its 1988 appearance leaving Spain. Unless that was a different car?
Hmmm? I tried to add all four images, but maybe each one replaced the previous? Trying again. One at a time now.
This is the car, I ended up purchasing it and have just got it back to the UK. I'm amazed that I have become the owner of a 750GT and I am now searching for any history, I've traced it back to Spain around 2017 and there is an image of a blue car with a similar engine cover detail to mine here in the forum.