- A rare Pinin Farina bodied Fiat 1100S

- Beautifully presented in green on green color scheme

- Recent restoration with many correct, rare details

- Rebuilt 1100B engine featuring a Cisitalia-style head, dual carbs and custom exhaust

- A highly event eligible Fiat including Mille Miglia eligibility

The Pinin Farina Fiat 1100S, built from 1949 to 1951, was the outgrowth of the highly competitive Fiat 1100S race car which competed at the famous Mille Miglia.

In 1949 the Fiat 1100E chassis was released and Fiat soon updated the 1100S with the handsomely styled and constructed Pinin Farina body. Eventually, the second series 1100S and 1100ES was developed as an even more civilized product. As David Beare in Fiat; The First Fifty Years notes the second series “carried a completely new, very elegant and influential fast-back coupe body by Pinin Farina, which would set a trend and in future years a style which would clothe such cars as the Lancia Aurelia B20. It was the beginning of a long and fruitful cooperation between Fiat and Farina."

The second series 1100S was also made in much lower numbers with just fifty-two examples built, the majority of which were the shorter wheel-base 1100S. Today approximately seventeen Pinin Farina-series 1100S and ES are known in varying condition, making it one of the rarer and more desirable models of the marque.

This example, chassis 1100S*500346*, was found in Boston in rather poor condition in the 1980s by Ron Kradjian, an Italian car enthusiast. Jack Deren of Jack Deren Racing Enterprises utilized the engine and transmission is the restoration of Cisitalia 014SMM, which was then also owned by Kradjian. At the time, this installation made perfect sense as it was, for all intents and purposes, identical to the original Cisitalia item and indistinguishable other than the serial number.

Chassis 1100S*500346* suffered further at the hands of Peter Voorhies, who had acquired the car from Kradjian and Deren in 1988 to use as a parts car for his Siata-Gilco special. After finishing the Siata-Gilco, Voorhies, in turn, sold the car to James Peacock, who began the process of acquiring the missing parts and reconstructing the body.

The current owner purchased the car from Peacock in 2019 and subsequently spent a great deal of time researching these rare Fiats and accumulating the correct, original missing items to complete the car. These scarce items included the proper headlights, Semaphores (indicators), Veglia gauges, Pinan Farina visors, and more. He then embarked on a restoration, which included the installation of a “hot” 1100B engine featuring a Cisitalia-style head, dual carburetors and custom exhaust/headers.

The body proved rust free and was finished in a striking metallic green while the interior was finished in a darker green vinyl, completing the charming Italian package. Chrome work was completed and the finished car is adorned with a fantastic details from the grill to the wheel discs. Recently completed, the finished product is beautiful, period correct and undoubtedly Italian.

As a seminal Pinin Farina design, predating the iconic Aurelia Coupe and others, this stunning little 1100S would be welcomed at concours worldwide. Given their competition lineage and in period participation, the 1100S is also a likely candidate for the Mille Miglia itself.