Chassis No.

103E127323115



Few automobiles capture the exuberance of 1950s Italian coach-building like the Fiat 1100 TV Printemps.

Designed by Giovanni Michelotti and built by Carrozzeria Vignale, it debuted at the Pincio Concours d'Elegance in Rome in the autumn of 1956.

Its lines shared clear kinship with a Michelotti prototype for Ghia and with the Bill Frick Special GT Coupe, the Cadillac V8 powered grand tourer Vignale built to Michelotti's design for Bill Frick.

The Printemps was built in similarly small numbers, its delicate air intakes, wrap-around rear glass, and hand-formed panels adapting Michelotti's flair for proportion onto Fiat's modest 1100 platform.



As noted by a copy of its original Libretto, this example was sold new in Milan and first registered on 26 May 1957, fittingly, in the spring for which it was named.

Its libretto records a continuous chain of Italian ownership thereafter, registered in Milan to Ettore Bonfanti in 1971, then passing to Pietro Marel...