| Abarth Cars was founded by the Austrian born | | | | sixties saw successes for the company in regards |
| Karl Abarth, a designer who later became an | | | | to racing and hill climbing. Racing against Ferrari and |
| Italian citizen and changed his first name to Carlo. | | | | Porsche, the cars commonly raced in the eight |
| Between nineteen twenty five and nineteen | | | | hundred and fifty and two thousand cc categories. |
| twenty seven Abarth worked as a motorbike | | | | As well as producing performance cars for racing, |
| designer for Castagna, whilst still only a teenager. | | | | Abarth Cars also made exhaust pipes for racing |
| Abarth was also a keen motorbike rider and | | | | and high performance cars. Tuning kits were also |
| raced in many races. Abarth went on to win the | | | | produced, and calibrations between Porsche and |
| European Championship five times, but sadly had | | | | Abarth saw various racing cars produced. |
| an accident in Austria which forced him to stop | | | | In the summer of nineteen seventy one Fiat |
| racing and instead focus his efforts towards | | | | bought Abarth Cars, and the racing team was |
| engineering and designing a sidecar. | | | | acquired by the Italian racing car manufactured, |
| After moving to Italy permanently, Abarth set up | | | | Osella. Abarth was used as a racing subsidiary of |
| Abarth and co in nineteen forty nine. The nineteen | | | | Fiat, helping with the Fiat rally cars. |