This most attractive Abarth was one of the later sports-racing cars to be displayed prominently within the Torinese marque's large section of the wonderfully well-focused Maranello Rosso Collection at Falciano in San Marino.

While there is no paperwork documentation of any kind accompanying the Lot it does appear to very substantially complete, and it is equipped with a fuel-injected Abarth engine and transmission.

Its chassis is numbered 'SE 014-003' but the bodywork mounted upon it is of a later and far more modern arodynamic design than the 1966-period'014' model, owing more to the 1971-series SE021 Sports Prototipo model which was finalised for that year's European 2-Litre Championship series of races.

To intrigue matters further the car as offered here is left-hand drive whereas the conventional driving position for the 1971-series cars was right-hand drive – as conventional for use on mainly clockwise motor racing circuits.

However, the sister 3000 Monotipo hill-climbing spor...