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  What this article is about While reading up about the Facel Vega for my previous blog, I came across the Bentley Crest. It is a coach-built car designed by Pininfarina, the famous Italian design house and built-in collaboration with a French company called Facel Vega. This luxury coupe has a French-Italian connection and is a car that holds a lot of history behind it.   The car and its humble beginnings The year is 1946 and most of Europe is coming out of a dark time, the World War II and Hitler’s work. Italy then led by Mussolini was a strong nation and had come under the watch of the league of nations and was sanctioned for their actions of invading Abyssinia in 1936. Italy’s friendship with Great Britain and France was cut off and they instead entered a pact with Nazi Germany on October 25 th 1936, known as the Rome-Berlin Axis based on a speech given by Mussolini a week after signing the pact.   Axis Alliance (left  Mussolini and right Hitler)...

https://d39a3h63xew422.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/15183655/Armando-Musotto-Abarth-at-Vernasca-Silver-Flag-2019-27-500x750.jpg The history of a car that put Abarth on a map yet is not so well known This is the history of the Italian muscle car, the 1950 Abarth 205-A Berlinetta, built by the famous coach builder Vignale which was founded and run by designer Giovanni Michelotti in Turin. There were a total of 3 car ever made between 1950 and 1951. This writeup focuses more on the history of Abarth and the journey of the car rather than technical specifications. About Carlo Abarth and the company https://www.abarth.com/content/dam/abarth/storia/BRAND_MONDO_visore_1920.jpg Pronounced as “eh-Barth” it was founded by Carlo Abarth an Austrian, born in 1908 with the natural ability in mechanics he would find his way in motorcycle racing. The man was a legend as he won 5 world championships with no backing, just him and his own tools. Like many others he would decide that moto...