Vehicle Description
The vehicle shown is located at our Zonhoven, Belgium facility and
priced at 19750 Euros. Car Cave is an international company with
locations and staff in both Europe and the United States. Car Cave
has extensive experience moving vehicles domestically and
internationally. For an additional cost we can handle the entire
import process for the buyer. Our insurance policy is specifically
underwritten to allow vehicles in transport to be fully insured
from storage at our overseas showroom until arriving at our Aiken,
SC facility. A full no hassle white glove delivery can be arranged
all the way to your front door with a South Carolina title. We
handle coordinating the full import process including duties, CBP
filing, insurance, bond, ocean transport, inland transport,
storage, EPA documentation, NHSTA documentation, declarations, port
coordination, and title.This car has quite a special story. In the
early 1990s, Fiat launched a rally version of its popular
Cinquecento microcar to compete in its own European single-make cup
series. Now the tiny lightweight track and rally weapon could make
a return as the next big thing among collectors...When the Fiat
Cinquecento was introduced in 1991, the world expected a cheap and
versatile city car for grocery shopping, in the spirit of the
original Fiat 500. But adolescent Italians soon learned that their
mothers' new, lightweight and surprisingly agile Cinquecentos were
also perfect toys for street racing on cobblestone boulevards,
cutting corners in dense renaissance-era city centres and drifting
around tight mountain curves.It's not clear whether Fiat simply
wanted to get Italy's speed-mad youth off the roads or aimed to
create a more inclusive and affordable way of entering the
increasingly expensive world of motorsport, but in 1992, the Fiat
Cinquecento Trofeo was born. And the way in which they were all
born is quite the story.The example which we are presenting here
today started its life in Greece back in 1996 as a standard Fiat
Cinquecento, nothing special. But Fiat had made these crates that
were distributed to certain dealers in certain countries with which
they could convert a Cinquecento into a Trofeo. For Greece, Fiat
had allocated 14 crates for the whole country. And our Cinquecento
was one of the 14 that were converted to Trofeo specifications by
the official Fiat dealer. In this crate you would get improved
cooling, a beefier exhaust and other engine upgrades. Meaning that
55 bhp was extracted from the engine. The gearbox received an
enforced clutch. Equipped with fog lights, underbody paneling, a
Sparco steering wheel, bucket seats, a roll cage, Bilstein
suspension, Abarth wheels and sticky tyres, the 790kg Cinquecento
was finally ready to race.Once your Fiat Cinquecento was converted
into a Trofeo, you could enter the European championship for the
Trofeo. The winner of this championship was granted a seat in the
Trofeo Works car for the Monte-Carlo rally. What an amazing
concept. We took our Trofeo on our 1000km GOAT Tour through the
Greek mountains and we completely fell in love with her. She
handles like she is on rails, which works well with her power to
weight ratio. Her exhaust screams and she can rev endlessly, what a
glorious engine. And with all of the rally/race upgrades it truly
feels like you are driving something really special. If there was
one car we would love to keep, this could be one of them...While
most people might have forgotten about this small and modest
footnote in motorsport's long history, some of the cars have
endured to this day in the hands of collectors. While ex-Works Fiat
racing cars from the 1970s and '80s are already very desirable and
increasingly valuable, we strongly believe that the 1990s Fiat
Cinquecentos and their affordable rally-bred incarnations will soon
climb the wish lists of discerning collectors around the
world.Important to note. We have removed the front half of the cage
for safety when driving on the road. This can be reinstalled.