<< Prev Page 2 of 2 Whether a deal was already in place before the first Boano Abarth was built is not entirely clear, but Boano did manage to sell a batch of ten cars to New York importer Tony Pompeo, which included the Covertible and Coupe of which only one was built each. The first example, a 207A, was sold through Pompeo to motoring journalist John Bentley, who fielded it in the 1955 Sebring 12 Hours. Although he finished second in class to a Porsche, the car was later disqualified for illegal re-fueling. Finished in bright, two-tone colours, the Boano Abarths were one by one delivered to Pompeo. The 208A and 209A were introduced at the 1955 Turin Motor Show, where they were shown alongside the 207A, which had been first shown earlier in the year.
Sadly, no further orders materialised for the Boano Abarth, and it is believed that only a dozen were built, including the Coupe and Convertible. Carlo Abarth continued successfully marketing exhaust kits and would go on to create many more Fiat based competition cars. He will have certainly run into Mario Felice Boano as he joined Fiat as head of design in 1957. A styling and packaging masterpiece, the Boano Abarth did not quite make it on the race track as it was quite antiquated compared the latest Porsches and Lotuses it faced off against. It is nevertheless highly sought after and the surviving cars are only very rarely seen in public. << Prev Page 2 of 2
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Whether a deal was already in place before the first Boano Abarth was built is not entirely clear, but Boano did manage to sell a batch of ten cars to New York importer Tony Pompeo, which included the Covertible and Coupe of which only one was built each. The first example, a 207A, was sold through Pompeo to motoring journalist John Bentley, who fielded it in the 1955 Sebring 12 Hours. Although he finished second in class to a Porsche, the car was later disqualified for illegal re-fueling. Finished in bright, two-tone colours, the Boano Abarths were one by one delivered to Pompeo. The 208A and 209A were introduced at the 1955 Turin Motor Show, where they were shown alongside the 207A, which had been first shown earlier in the year.