It's hard to pin a year on this Fiat 500. We know from the bumper and the fact that it has front-hinged doors rather than the older rear-hinged suicide doors that it's a 1966 to 1972 model and a 500F rather than the more posh 500L "Lusso".
The tiny 12" wheels and short 72.4" wheelbase must make for an interesting ride on Indianapolis's bomb-cratered streets. The overall length of this car is only 116.9", which is less than the wheelbase on a late Sixties GM full-size sedan. The car only weighs 1,100 pounds, or less than half what even the lightest Ford Mustang weighed. The trunk on that luggage rack is so groovy!
This little Rosso Medio coupe would have been propelled by a rear-mounted OHV 500cc air-cooled two-cylinder putting eighteen horsepower through a 4-speed manual gearbox, giving a top speed of about sixty. British car mag MOTOR tested a '68 model and noted a 0-50 time of 33.6 seconds and an elapsed time of 26.9 seconds in the quarter.
This one was photographed in June of 2024 using an Olympus E-M1X and a Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm F2.8-4.0 ASPH zoom lens.
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