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Foundation Anniversary: Abarth — March 31, 1949

31 March 2027
Bologna

Abarth & C. was incorporated on 31 March 1949 before a notary in Bologna, with its registered office in the city, in via Don Minzoni, and its working premises in Turin. At the end of 1948 the Turin car maker Cisitalia had closed under its debts, and Carlo Abarth, who ran its racing department, wanted to save the team; without money of his own he turned to the Bolognese entrepreneur Armando Scagliarini through his son Guido, himself a Cisitalia driver. The cars, the stores and the mechanics moved to Turin, and the marque took as its emblem the scorpion, the zodiac sign Abarth shared with the younger Scagliarini.

Dates verified on Biblioteca Salaborsa and Treccani.

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