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The Fiat 522C with Flying Star body was introduced at the annual contest of Piazza Santorre di Santarosa in Milan which was very close to Touring’s Factory.
The vertical radiator of the 522C and the rather high bonnet help to recapture the original spirit of the Flying Star as it was applied to the Isotta Fraschini versions. The mudguards, however, were built with the interweaving pattern introduced by Josette Pozzo’s Alfa Romeo.
The Flying Star is a type of body created by Touring Superleggera introduced at the 1931 Milan Auto Show on a Isotta Fraschini 8B chassis which gained a great success. It was also adapted to other chassis maintaining the same basic settings. The trademark elements of this kind of bodywork were basically a thick chrome strip on the side that starts from the radiator, runs along the entire car forming a ‘V’ at the doors and descends on the tail.
