'The performance of FIAT engines, as modified by Carlo Abarth, has for long been held to verge on the supernatural.' – John Bolster, Autosport magazine.

After leaving Cisitalia in 1948, Austrian-born engineer Carlo Abarth set up as an independent in Turin, the home of the Italian auto industry.

From producing induction and exhaust systems, Abarth branched out into selling performance kits for - mainly FIAT - production cars, later building a highly successful series of aerodynamically-stylish sports prototypes and limited-series production cars.

Reporting on the FIAT Abarth 695SS in its January 1967 edition, Cars & Car Conversions magazine got close to 145km/h out of the car, not bad going for a model that in standard trim would barely touch 100! Purchased by the current owner in 1998 in Italy and brought to Denmark, this FIAT Abarth 695SS remains in the same condition as it was when acquired, having covered only some 758 kilometres since then.

The car had been restored over the pr...