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£27,005
1969 Fiat 500 Mare
Monaco • 12 May 2012
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AI Listing Summary
This is a 1969 Fiat 500 Mare, a beach car conversion by Carrozzeria Holiday, built in the tradition of the Jolly. Having recently completed its restoration, the car is in excellent condition, featuring a blue exterior with a two-tone white and blue interior.
Condition
8
The car has recently completed restoration and is described as being in excellent condition, suggesting it meets the criteria for a high rating.
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Manual
LHD
Monaco
2330361
1969
Auction
Description
16.5 bhp, 479 cc air cooled two-cylinder engine, three-speed manual transmission, leaf spring in front, coil springs in rear, and four-wheel drum brakes.
Wheelbase: 1,840 mm (72.4") The Fiat Jolly was a special edition of the 500 and 600, designed and built by Ghia in the late ‘50s and ‘60s.
With a light surrey top, wicker seats and cutaways replacing doors, it was robbed of most of its utilitarianism and as such, became the perfect beach car.
Powerful enough to be driven on real roads yet light enough to be driven on a golf course or onto a yacht, resorts and wealthy vacationers bought them in droves.
Approximately 15 years ago, Giovanni Vernagallo’s Carrozzeria Holiday began converting vintage Fiat 500s into the “Mare”, a beach car built in the tradition of the Jolly–excluding the wicker seats.
Great fun, and ideal for the sunny coasts of Italy, these cars were sold exclusively to resorts and a short list of VIP clients.
Today, the Carrozzeria Holiday continues to make “Mare” v...
Price Analysis vs Other 500 Mares
£18,492
Lowest Price (All Time)
£30,360
Median Price (All Time)
£41,458
Highest Price (All Time)
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