#balbo

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Balbo B400, 1953. A rear-engined microcar powered by a 398cc 14.9bhp 2-stroke, 2 cylinder engine. Presented on Carrozzeria Balbo's stand at the Turin Motor Show the B400 failed to progress beyond prototype stage and the following year Balbo closed its business.

#Balbo #Balbo B400 #1953 #concept #prototype #design study #rear engine #2 stroke #2 cylinder #dead brands #Carrozzeria Balbo #Turin Motor Show #1950s style

[diabolus1exmachina]

Siata 208 CS ( 1 of 6). 

Societá Italiana Auto Trasformazioni Accessori (SIATA) created a marvelous assortment of machinery in its 45-year history under the guidance of the Ambrosini family. Founded by Giorgio Ambrosini in 1926, Siata specialized in performance modifications for Fiats, creating the overhead-valve conversions, multi-speed gearboxes, superchargers, and multi-carb intakes that competitive Italians wanted for their diminutive cars. The Italian auto giant conspicuously ignored—with few exceptions—the high-performance market as the Agnellis concentrated their empire around sensible, reliable, and mass-produced cars of small proportions.Siata received substantial financial assistance from Fiat following the Second World War, and by 1949 they were producing small automobiles which wore custom, house-labeled coachwork. Firmly grafted to Fiat and its engineering, Siata took a giant leap forward with the arrival of Rudolf Hruska in 1950. Hruska had worked in Porsche’s design office before the war and later collaborated with Carlo Abarth on Piero Dusio’s Cisitalia Grand Prix project. Fiat itself plotted its re-entry to the top ranks of Italian performance automobiles in 1950 with the introduction of their two-liter V-8 (dubbed "Otto Vu"), whose development was entrusted to Siata and executed in total secrecy by Hruska’s team.

The unusual oversquare, 70-degree V-8 engine featured all-aluminum castings with wedge-shaped combustion chambers. Induction was through a pair of dual-throat, downdraft Weber carburetors. With its high-revving short-stroke design and 8.5:1 compression ratio, prodigious power was channeled through a four-speed manual gearbox. Hruska planted the engine into a tubular chassis, and this became the basis of Fiat’s 8V.

Debuting at the 1952 Geneva Salon, the 8V caused an absolute sensation perhaps best equated to a meltdown of Italy’s motoring press. For many, the Siata-developed, Fiat-badged supercar defied belief. In particular, the advanced chassis featured a fully independent suspension with coil springs and telescopic shock absorbers at all four corners and was a marvelously sophisticated platform for its time, with supple and predictable handling that amazed drivers accustomed to the rigidly sprung, “flex-framed,” live-axle sports cars of the time.

Approximately 200 Tipo 104 engines were made to supply the 114 8V examples which Fiat ultimately produced. Eighty-five or so surplus engines were thusly returned to Siata, which seized the opportunity to supply them with additional house-made upgrades and implant them into the very chassis from which the earth-shattering Otto Vu had been developed.

The resulting Siata 208 CS was available as an attractive barchetta-like Spider or streamlined berlinetta, which Siata commissioned from a small pool of local coachbuilders including Bertone, Vignale, and Stabilimenti Farina. It is said that Siata openly encouraged the carryover of major styling details which these same companies were providing to Ferrari during the same period.

Perhaps the shapeliest design ever rendered upon the 208 CS, however, was executed by Balbo of Turin. Just nine berlinettas were made, of which only six examples are known to remain extant.

#Siata 208 CS #Fiat #Porsche #Carlo Abarth #Bertone #Vignale #Farina #Ferrari #Balbo

[ciaheyhimm]

I'll keep posting about them.

#reichblr #wwii #ww2 #historical #ww2 italy #galeazzo ciano #ciano #italo balbo #balbo #they are underrated

[frenchcurious]

Siata 208 CS by Balbo 1953. - source Amazing Classic Cars.

#siata #balbo

[honamiiskinnie]

Balbo is cute lol , what even is this.

#Balbo #Weihnachtsmann und Co kg #Christmas #icebear #bread #i love balbo

[superfuji]

Questa volta lo scandalo è scoppiato a Retorbido, un paese in provincia di Pavia, dove il neonato circolo di Fratelli d’Italia sarà dedicato addirittura ad un ras del fascismo, ossia il gerarca fascista Italo Balbo, tra i protagonisti di assalti e pestaggi nelle Camere del lavoro e nelle sedi socialiste in Emilia e tra i responsabili della morte di Don Minzolini. Interpellato sul tema, il segretario provinciale di FdI Claudio Mangiarotti, ha risposto all’AGI affermando che “il nome di Balbo è stato scelto perché è stato un eroe nazionale, un patriota, l’uomo che fece la Trasvolata Atlantica”. “I suoi raid contro gli antifascisti in Emilia? Non conosco così bene la storia, ma stiamo parlando di una medaglio d’oro al valor militare, di un pioniere. Non vedo nulla di male in questa intitolazione, chi fa queste polemiche le porta avanti perché non ha argomenti contro Fratelli d’Italia”. Mangiarotti ha inoltre affermato che a Balbo “sono intitolate strade, scuole e piazze”.  In realtà l’unica intitolazione riguardava quella di un aereo dell’aeronautica, decisione poi prontamente ritirata tra lo sdegno generale. “Una notizia che mi era sfuggita” dice il segretario provinciale.

Il partito di Meloni intitola un circolo ad un gerarca fascista

#quotes #politica #storia #fascismo #balbo #italo balbo

[classicvirus]

Affluent job: 1939 Fiat 1500B Cabriolet by Balbo

Affluent job: 1939 Fiat 1500B Cabriolet by Balbo

Italy in 1939, except for some areas of the north-west, was a predominantly pre-industrial reality. Those who, at that time, could afford a fiat 1500 with a six-cylinder engine were few, let alone how many could afford a car like this. Indeed, we cannot know the price of the transformation from a standard 1500 to this extremely elegant convertible, which under some points of view recalls a…

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#1500b #1939 #balbo #Cabriolet #coachbuilt #fiat

[artistmacposts]

Metra Electric Holiday Train... followed by a regular train #christmastrain

#youtube #Chicago #Illinois #Metra #Metra Electric #holiday train #Grant Park #commuter rail #railroad #italo balbo #Museum Campus #balbo #plain train #Christmas #Christmas lights #Snowman #santa claus #flashing lights #train signals

[pirapopnoticias]

#balbo #reparo #rompida #semae

[chronivore]

Balbo the Boy Magician

#Balbo #boy magician #comics #fawcett

[revistadehistoria-es]

Síguenos en Instagram @revistadehistoria.es - Lee cada día nuevos Artículos Históricos GRATIS: https://revistadehistoria.es/registro-gratuito/ El cognomen Balbo de Gades

#balbo

[philosophybits]

Constant practice given to one matter often conquers both genius and art.

Cicero, Pro Balbo

#philosophy #quotes #Cicero #Pro Balbo #practice #effort #success

[kriegsabstieg]

Joseph Goebbels at the Ciampino military airfield near Rome, awaiting the first landing of a Zeppelin; further to the right: Aviation Minister General Italo Balbo and Dr. Ulrich v. Hassell, German Ambassador to the Quirinal; left: his wife Ilse v. Hassell

#reichblr #joseph goebbels #italo balbo #ulrich von hassell

[ciaheyhimm]

Have some photos of Italo Balbo alongside Hermann Goering and Joseph Goebbels!

#ww2 #wwii #reichblr #historical #ww2 italy #ww2 germany #italo balbo #balbo #joseph goebbels #goebbels #hermann goering #göring #goering

[europeansculpture]

Giuseppe Balbo (1902 - 1980) - Autoportrait, 1927

#Giuseppe Balbo #sculpture

[blueiskewl]

1953 Siata 208 CS by Balbo

#Siata #1953 Siata 208 CS by Balbo #automobile #car #sports car #italian sports car #luxury #luxury car #luxury living #luxury lifestyle #rich #expensive #collectable #sexy