{"id":208364,"date":"2016-04-20T07:55:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T07:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=208364"},"modified":"2024-12-27T12:54:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T12:54:13","slug":"1957-fiat-abarth-500-coupe-zagato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1957-fiat-abarth-500-coupe-zagato\/","title":{"rendered":"1957 Fiat-Abarth 500 Coup\u00e9 Zagato"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>1957 Fiat Abarth 500 Coup\u00e9 Zagato<\/h1>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<p><span id=\"intelliTXT\">Building on the success of their 750 Zagato Coup\u00e9, Abarth worked on a 500cc version of the car for the 1957 Turin Motor Show. The car was put into limited production for both road and racing clients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Abarth worked extensively on the two cylinder engine by fitting twin Weber 26IMBs and a new 8.7:1 cylinder head which raised peak power to 23 bhp at 5000 rpm.<\/p>\n<p>Zagato&#8217;s body was similar to the 750 GT without the famed double-bubble roof. The smaller engine didn&#8217;t require the large scoops on engine lid, however it did retain the unique rear-quarter windows.<\/p>\n<p>The 500 had less impact than 750 GT, but Ovidio Cappelli did become the 500cc Italian Grand Touring champion in one of these diminutive racers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_208375\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-208375\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1957-fiat-abarth-500-coupe-zagato\/villa_deste_2012-71\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-208375\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-208375\" src=\"http:\/\/supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1957_FiatAbarth_500CoupZagato1.jpg\" alt=\"1957 Fiat Abarth 500 Coup\u00e9 Zagato\" width=\"\" height=\"\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-208375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Villa_d&#8217;Este_2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1957-fiat-abarth-500-coupe-zagato\/1035622-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-208376\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-208376\" src=\"http:\/\/supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1035622.jpg\" alt=\"1957 Fiat Abarth 500 Coup\u00e9 Zagato\" width=\"\" height=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1957-fiat-abarth-500-coupe-zagato\/1036022-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-208378\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-208378\" src=\"http:\/\/supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1036022.jpg\" alt=\"1957 Fiat Abarth 500 Coup\u00e9 Zagato\" width=\"\" height=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1957-fiat-abarth-500-coupe-zagato\/1036069-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-208380\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-208380\" src=\"http:\/\/supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1036069.jpg\" alt=\"1957 Fiat Abarth 500 Coup\u00e9 Zagato\" width=\"\" height=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1957-fiat-abarth-500-coupe-zagato\/1036079-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-208382\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-208382\" src=\"http:\/\/supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1036079.jpg\" alt=\"1957 Fiat Abarth 500 Coup\u00e9 Zagato\" width=\"\" height=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1957-fiat-abarth-500-coupe-zagato\/1036091-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-208385\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-208385\" src=\"http:\/\/supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1036091.jpg\" alt=\"1957 Fiat Abarth 500 Coup\u00e9 Zagato\" width=\"\" height=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<h3>In Detail<\/h3>\n<table class=\"cardetails\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">type<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\">Racing Car<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">built at<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\">Turin, Italy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"boldlabel\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">engine<\/td>\n<td class=\"boldvalue\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\">Inline-2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">position<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\">Rear Longitudinal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">aspiration<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" 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The car was put into limited production for both road and racing clients. Abarth worked extensively on the two cylinder engine by fitting twin Weber 26IMBs and a new 8.7:1 cylinder head which raised peak power to 23 bhp at 5000 rpm. Zagato&#8217;s body was similar to the 750 GT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2185,1310,1590,9348,17100,34],"tags":[2536,16842,21844,6414,6415,17104,1591,6724,6725,13061,6722,245,37,6508,21478],"class_list":["post-208364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1950s","category-abarth","category-fiat","category-guides","category-model-guides-race-cars","category-zagato","tag-1950s","tag-1950s-cars","tag-abarth","tag-abarth-picture-gallery","tag-abarth-model-indepth","tag-abarth-model-guides-race-cars","tag-fiat","tag-fiat-model-in-depth","tag-fiat-race-car-in-depth","tag-car-profiles","tag-race-car-in-depth","tag-race-car","tag-zagato","tag-zagato-model-in-depth","tag-zagato-model-guides-race-cars"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>1957 Fiat-Abarth 500 Coup\u00e9 Zagato<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1957-fiat-abarth-500-coupe-zagato\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"1957 Fiat-Abarth 500 Coup\u00e9 Zagato\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"1957 Fiat Abarth 500 Coup\u00e9 Zagato Building on the success of their 750 Zagato Coup\u00e9, Abarth worked on a 500cc version of the car for the 1957 Turin Motor Show. 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