SOMETHING NICE FOR THE WEEKEND, SIR?
We like to bring you a mixture of familiar classics and exotic rarities on Classics, and this car certainly falls into the latter category. It is a Fiat as the badges make clear, but it was designed and built by coachbuilder Pinin Farina and the engine was developed by the Maserati brothers. And we do mean the Maserati brothers from Italy, not Bill and Joe Maserati from Peckham!
The boxout on p40 explains more about the Maserati connection, but for now we can describe it as a 1963 Fiat-OSCA 1600 S Pininfarina Cabriolet. The car belongs to Andy Lerry, who bought it in 2013. He saw it at an auction, which he had gone to just to sniff around because, as Andy admits, he is always on the lookout for interesting cars.
‘It was a runner and looked sort of OK,’ he relates. ‘There was a lot of interest in it, but it wouldn’t run properly. That was because it has a mechanical throttle linkage and somebody, presumably
