FFVE Blog
Continuing my collaboration with the FFVE (French Federation of Vintage Vehicles), I invite you to discover some automotive gems in the “Museum Muse” section, which highlights an iconic car from a French automobile museum. For the “La Rue du temps qui passe” (The Street of passing time) museum, the choice fell on the 1926 Fiat 509 Spider, a car with an eventful history.
The Fiat 509 is a major car for Fiat, the first small-displacement Fiat to be mass-produced (more than 90,000 units) in the brand new Lingotto factory in Turin. Presented as a compact 2-door, 4-seater car, it was equipped with a small 990 cc 4-cylinder engine developing 22 horsepower and was subsequently produced in a number of 2- and 4-door body styles, including sedan, torpedo, coupe, taxi, convertible, and spider versions, which differed from convertibles in that they had a small folding bench seat behind the passenger compartment.
This Fiat 509 Spider was used during World War II to supply the Soleil resistance group, with the entire rear of the car cut out to replace the “spider” section with a transport platform! Michel Boom, creator of the “La Rue du temps qui passe” museum, restored it to perfection and then regularly drove it in vintage car rallies. To find out more about this beautiful car and its history…
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