Re: Moretti Cars

[jack@domain.elided (Jack Hagerty)]

>From: Scott Fisher <sefisher@domain.elided>

>Greg Stewart asks about Moretti cars; Jack Hagerty may also chime in on
>this one -- I still have (somewhere...) a reprint of an old Road & Track
>road test on a Moretti that Jack gave me years ago.

I think you covered it better than I could, Scott (as usual). Everything 
I know about Moretti is contained in that article (the cover story, no 
less!) and a few automotive encyclopeadia entries. The styling is that 
absolutely to-die-for early 50's Italian school which was flawless. When 
Bill Mitchell (GM styling chief from the '60s into the '70s) was whining 
publicly about how small cars have no possibility of being "styled" because 
of their lack of sheet metal, I would hold up the Moretti 750 coupe' as a 
counter argument (usually to dropped jaws). Mitchell, meanwhile, showed us 
the vastness of his talent with his last great hurrah, the aircraft carrier 
like '73 Buick Riviera.

- - Jack

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