1949/1955 Comirato-Gilco OSCA 1100 Special

            A 1949/1955 Comirato-Gilco OSCA 1100 Special at the 2014 Lime Rock Concours d'Élegance, belonging to Robert Wilder of New York. This little car has an incredibly convoluted history. It began life as a cycle-fendered special on a Gilco (Gilberto Colombo) 200 series chassis no 5504549 in 1949, and was campaigned by Alberto Comirato of Milan with a Fiat 1100S engine as the Comirato-Fiat-Gilco. In 1950 Comirato bought an 1100cc O.S.C.A. engine (no 1111) and installed it, changing the car's name to Comirato-OSCA-Gilco. The car then changed hands a few times and was rebodied with a baby-Ferrari styled bodywork by Fratelli Palazzi, a small carrozzeria that reportedly did work directly for Ferrari. Someone named Crepaldi finished the car and sold it to a wealthy Texan named "Bro" Crim in 1954. Crim had gone to Italy to race cars but didn't have much luck with this bitza, so took it back to Texas where it continued to exasperate him. The engine and four-speed Siata transmission vanished along with an unnamed mechanic who was going to repair them, and the car was later chopped up to accommodate a Chevy V8 for drag racing. A low point was reached in the early seventies when the car was thrown in as a freebie as part of the sale of a $75 trailer hitch. A slow process of restoration with many false starts was begun in 1993, with the current owner (who did the lion's share of the work) since 2008.
   

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Taken in: United States / Connecticut / Salisbury (show map)

Taken on: August 31, 2014

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Camera: Canon EOS 6D, f/7.1, 1/400 sec, 63mm, ISO 320 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 6D
Lens:	EF24-70mm f/2.8L II USM
Aperture:	f/7.1
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/400)
Focal Length:	63mm
ISO:	320
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 Macintosh
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