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The Moretti 600 Spider designed by Giovanni Michelotti.
The Moretti 600 Spider: In 1949 Moretti launched the new 600. This was a relatively conventional car with a front mounted 592cc water-cooled four-cylinder engine driving the rear wheels. The chassis remained from square-section steel tube whilst the wheelbase was up to 2000mm and the weight now 510kg. Designed by Giovanni Michelotti, it was available as a 4-seat saloon, a 2-seat coupe and this spider which featured a 750cc engine and won the coppa d’oro at the Concorso d’Eleganza di Stresa in 1950.
Moretti Motor Company was founded in 1925 by Giovanni Moretti in order to design and build motorcycles, both of his own design and with agreements with other companies. Using the same motorcycle engines, Giovanni Moretti also dabbled in microcars in the late 1920s and early 1930s…
