GTC60 Abarth Simca 2000 GT

3d model by: dc888 updated by MacedoSTI Carlo Abarth is best known for his Fiat-based road and racing cars but also had a hugely successful collaboration with French manufacturer Simca during the first half of the 1960s. One of the first products of this partnership was the Abarth Simca 1300 GT of 1962, which was based on the recently introduced Simca 1000. Fitted with a slippery, lightweight body and an enlarged engine, the small machine was immediately successful in its class. At the 1963 Geneva Motor Show, Abarth provided a first glimpse of what was to come with the introduction of the Abarth Simca 1600 GT and 2000 GT. While these, larger-engined cars used the same Simca-derived underpinnings as the 1300 GT, they featured a newly developed engine. Of these two, the smaller-engined 1600 GT was not developed further as it would be forced to run in the same 1,301 - 2,000 cc class as its bigger brother. Compared to the Simca derived engine, the new Tipo 236 straight four was slightly longer and importantly used five instead of three bearings to support the crankshaft instead of the three featured in the production engine. Equipped with dry-sump lubrication, a pair of 45 mm Webers