{"id":459876,"date":"2003-01-01T19:00:54","date_gmt":"2003-01-02T03:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=106745"},"modified":"2024-06-04T13:59:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T13:59:17","slug":"sweet-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/sweet-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Revenge in Italy \u2013 doesn\u2019t that conjure up images of Machiavelli and the Duchess of Malfi?<\/h2>\n
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A little known early variant of the late \u00d540s MT4 1100, this car featured several \u00d2one-off\u00d3 details including moulded-in fenders and a raised hood vent.Photo: Ferret Fotographic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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One of OSCA\u00d5s greatest triumphs came at the 12-Hours of Sebring in 1954, where three of the top five finishers were OSCA MT4s. The race was won overall by the MT4b of Stirling Moss and Bill Lloyd, while the MT4 of James Simpson and George Colby (pictured below) finished fourth overall and second in class.
Photo: Ozzie Lyons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Revenge has always been seen as the special ingredient, a clich\u00e9 almost, in the fictional and maybe not so fictional stories and histories of Italian families and dynasties. Authors Orsini and Zagari use the word in the title of their book on OSCA to describe the activities of this little company at their factory in Bologna during the 1950s.<\/p>\n

But before we explore that, it is important to define what was OSCA. It was yet another Italian car constructor to use an acronym for its title. In this case the letters stood for Officine Specializzate Costruzioni Automobili (Specialised workshop for car construction). I\u2019ve often fondly imagined the management of companies from Fiat to Siata, from Alfa to ATS, sitting down after a few glasses of wine and dreaming their titles up between them. They needed to be inventive as not only did the titles have to mean something but they had to sound right in their abbreviated form as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n