00:00Warm greetings, welcome back to the usual appointment with this column Topolino Maranto
00:05dedicated to vintage cars and motorcycles.
00:07Today is a special occasion because after a long time I have the great pleasure of seeing again
00:11my friend Mario Righini, a great collector, in my opinion, the most important one
00:16we have it today in Europe because it started many years ago.
00:20We came from the valleys of Comacchio, we come from Argenta, in the lower railway, after in the
00:26After the war we came to Bologna, then I continued in Bologna. I'll tell you that it was born to me as a child
00:31when my father demolished the old stains that they said how beautiful, what a shame to demolish them.
00:36Then the spring of conservation went off in my head. I was just saying how much
00:41It was great, I don't even need to break it. Even when we bought a Max omelette if we found
00:45someone who took it and we understood that he could keep it and broke it we gave it to him for pleasure
00:49that it wouldn't break. You know that in there is the famous Bugatti I that is said to have
00:55He ran a race in Reggio Emilia in 1904 and it is said that he would have won this race.
00:59However, I would not like to forget that we have come here today to document the history of a
01:03Beautiful Cisitalia. When did you find it and how was the discovery?
01:07It was found and reported to me, they had reported it to Barighi. Then he told me
01:12In Genoa there's a car so-so now we'll see. I happened to be in Genoa to get
01:18the vehicles and we were near a Fiat dealership which I think should be called
01:24Pasquucci who was originally from Bologna and then Cisitalia is under there. I have
01:29connected all things and so. We are pleased to have you here. Now we are talking about
01:35cars that are now more than 4 or 5 and not... No but apart from this the car was
01:40It went to San Martino, then it was at the San Martino museum, then it was sold. It had gone
01:46to end up from Dubini to Padua, then from Dubini she went to Rome to Sant'Ovetti, then from Sant'Ovetti
01:51It came back to me. He bought it, so it's a very complex story that's part of
01:55in our area. Here's Bruno, he used one of these, the famous cloud badgers.
02:01And this is truly an important piece of history. So first of all Cisitalia means
02:07Pietro D'Useo's Italian sports company. This character, born in Asti, then went
02:16in Turin where he made his fortune, he raced cars, he was also an excellent footballer,
02:22He played for Juventus. During the war and immediately at the beginning he started to do
02:29this design using, trying to use some Fiat material. He called
02:34a Fiat engineer who made the project for him, he made it for him at his home because
02:38Fiat and especially Turin had been bombed. To be able to leave so that it could leave
02:46after the war with these cars. To do this he immediately used it as a basis, and we can
02:51see, a 1100 Fiat engine with a three-speed gearbox and a rear, a differential
03:00Fiat 500 which however was reversed to keep the car's center of gravity low. Then from this
03:09design made the machine dress up as a motorcycle, which was a magician, that we can
03:15see in the typical suspension bodywork. He then made, in addition to the beautiful design of the car,
03:25he then made an air intake that continues through the hood to give pressure, even
03:30pressure to the Zenit carburetors. Here we have a truly stunning machine that is original
03:35one hundred percent. They called to do this, so they spent, they called
03:41Taruffi. We must remember Taruffi not only as the winner of the beautiful and tragic
03:47last thousand miles of 1957, but as a motorcycle champion, great test rider. In the
03:54In the Righini collection, we find this stunning piece that is complete with everything. Door number 0014.
04:01which means the fourteenth produced. Fourteenth out of about 40, the story goes,
04:06on about 40 machines. D'Uzio puts all his effort into this machine, the effort
04:13collaborators, Savonuzzi for example, who spent his life there, an engineer of the
04:18Fiat. It participated in the Emilia Emilia, it won in its category, we remember that it was
04:241100, he won several races, but above all he is linked to an episode from 1946 when
04:32Tazio Nuvolari takes a turn with the steering wheel in his hand, and here we wake up a secret, he takes a turn, he comes
04:38always depicted as having the steering wheel in his hand and making a turn, how he did it, we
04:44We all ask. Someone says he blocked it with a key, he was maneuvering. No, it's much more
04:50simple. Since he had the removable steering wheel made and it was mounted, how do they do it?
04:57Now in Formula 1, to enter more quickly, more quickly, it had to be blocked with a lever,
05:04which we will now show the photographs, so he allowed him to drive through
05:09the lever. He turns the steering wheel in his hand, as if it had come off. This gesture was
05:15then repeated many times by champions, one of whom was also the never forgotten
05:21Villeneuve, who also made the gesture with a modern machine, without going, the machine
05:27stop. So, that engine is 1.100 Fiat, so a pushrod, 4-cylinder inline, obviously
05:32It's been boosted. It's been boosted, it's been brought to 46 horsepower, then even to 60. It's given
05:40then the possibility for the house to recover afterwards, because it had really gone into crisis
05:45economic, and started to make those road cars, always on Fiat mechanics, and these
05:52road cars, one of which even ended up permanently at the Momo in New York.
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