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Birth Anniversary: Carlo Abarth — November 15, 1908
15 November 2026
Vienna
Karl Abarth, known in Italy as Carlo Abarth, was born on November 15, 1908, in Vienna. A competitive motorcycle racer who won five European champion titles in the 1930s, he settled in Italy and directed racing activities for Cisitalia. On March 31, 1949, he founded Abarth & C. in Bologna alongside Armando Scagliarini, manufacturing high-performance exhaust equipment, intake manifolds, and lightweight sports racing cars bearing his astrological scorpion badge.
Dates verified on Treccani and Stadt Wien.
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