- 1957 Rimini
Bandini 750 GT Zagato
In the mid-1950s, Ilario Bandini wanted to launch a small GT coupé. A certificate of origin dated 11/01/1955 details the technical specification of this ‘Bandini Granturismo Veloce 750cc’, with its chassis no. 1001B made up of elliptical tubes in high-grade steel, weighing just 27kg, and its twin-cam ‘Bandini-Crosley’ engine no. 1001B, fed by two Weber carburettors and developing 67bhp at 7000rpm. The certificate also states that Borrani wheels with 135/80 tyres were fitted, and gives an unladen weight of 670kg. According to Dino Bandini, his uncle drove the chassis from Forli to Milan, sitting on a makeshift box, to deliver it to the workshops of Ugo Zagato and his two sons, Elio and Gianni. To cover nearly 300km in such conditions was hardly commonplace, and the police must have turned a blind eye!
Vehicle Overview
Zagato designed a slender and elegant body for this brilliant little chassis, which refined the theme adopted for the Moretti 750 in 1954 and was later used on the Abarth 750, before leading to Zagato’s characteristic ‘double bubble’ roof. It should be noted that the windscreen is marked ‘Securit 3-11-1955’, suggesting that the body was finished at the end of the year. In any event, its charm ensured that it won the Concorso di Eleganza in Rimini in 1957. The 750 GT did not stay long in Italy and crossed the pond in 1959 to join the Racemasters team, which entered it in races at several well-known circuits, such as Daytona, Watkins Glen and Sebring, driven by Victor Lukens and Fred Haynes. Finished in white, it carried the markings ‘Racemasters USA, Scuderia Bandini’.
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