• Rare coach built Fiat • Based on the Fiat 600 D • First registered in Milan • Rara versione con carrozzeria Vignale • Sulla base delle Fiat 600 D • Targata Milano One of the most illustrious of Italian coachbuilders, Carrozzeria Vignale of Turin was founded in 1948 by Alfredo Vignale, whose career had begun pre-war with a successful design on the FIAT Topolino chassis.

Enzo Ferrari's favoured coachbuilder during Maranello's formative years, Carrozzeria Vignale also designed and built cars for Lancia and Maserati among others, and in the 1960s branched out into automobile manufacture in its own right.

By this time Vignale was turning out some 1,000 bodies a year, necessitating its relocation to larger premises at Grugliasco, not far from FIAT's factory at Mirafiori, Turin.

Styling maestro Giovanni Michelotti was responsible for many of Vignale's designs of this period.

FIAT chassis formed the basis for many of Vignale's more popular models, including this 750 Spyder, which is base...