1923 FIAT 501 - BARN FIND - ROLLING CHASSIS, 1500CC PETROL SIDE VALVE ENGINE. APPROXIMATELY 80,000 FIAT 501 CARS WERE BUILT BETWEEN 1919 AND 1926. 2,614 OF THESE WERE 501 S SPORTS MODELS BUILT BETWEEN 1921 AND 1926, MANY OF THESE HAD SPECIALIST BODIES BY COACHBUILDER SUCH AS BERTONE. PROBABLY SEVERAL HUNDRED OF THE SALOONS AND TOURERS HAVE SURVIVED, BUT ONLY AROUND 20 OF THE SPORTS MODELS HAVE SURVIVED WORLDWIDE. THE 501 BECAME VERY POPULAR BETWEENTHE WARS AS A FAMILY CAR AND THE 501 SPORTS WENT ON TO HAVE MANY MAJOR SUCCESSES AT INTERNATIONAL ENDURANCE RACES SUCH AS THE TARGA FLORIO AND THE MILLE MIGLIA. THE CHASSIS WILL BE USED TO CONSTRUCT A FIAT 501 S SPORTS MODEL.. THE FINISHED CAR WILL BE USED AT PRESTIGE VINTAGE RACE MEETINGS AND RALLIES THROUGHOUT EUROPE, AS WELL AS CLASSIC CAR SHOWS. THE 501 WAS FIAT'S FIRST PRODUCTION BUILT CAR AND HAD SEVERAL UNIQUE FEATURES WHICH WERE LATER TO BECOME STANDARD ON PRODUCTION MOTOR CARS, THE PRINCIPLE BEING A PRESSURISED ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM. THE CHASSIS IS ABSOLUTELY ORIGINAL, HAVING BEEN STORED FOR MANY DECADES.

THIS 1923 FIAT ROLLING CHASSIS IS CLASSIFIED TO COMMODITY CODE 9705000090 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING; GENERAL INTERPRETATIVE RULES (GIR) GIR 1 HAS BEEN USED TO CLASSIFY THIS PRODUCT BY THE TERMS OF HEADING 9705 - COLLECTIONS AND COLLECTORS' PIECES OF ZOOLOGICAL, MINERALOGICAL, ANATOMICAL, HISTORICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL, PALAEONTOLOGICAL, ETHNOGRAPHIC OR NUMISMATIC INTEREST. GIR 6 HAS BEEN USED TO CLASSIFY THE GOODS TO SUBHEADING LEVEL 9705000090 - OTHER THAN COLLECTORS PIECES OF WOOD, SILVER OR GOLD.