FIAT 875 MONZA

The MONZA 875 Monoposto open wheel racing cars were designed to encourage youngsters keen to enter the sport of motor racing and provide them with a simple and inexpensive car to test their skills.
It was called the MONZA 875 due to the ‘Troffeo Cadetti’ being launched in 1964 at the Monza Junior circuit and that the cars were to cost no more than Italyian Lire 875, 000. Youngsters from the age of fifteen flocked to join this series, with over sixty manufacturers, consisting of drivers themselves, carozzerias, engineers, coachbuilders, mechanics and small garages building cars, all very different, but keeping to the laid down specifications and costs and all using FIAT 500 suspension parts and the engine from the FIAT 500 Giardiniera. A flat air-cooled twin that was highly tuneable and robust and was used until the series developed into using larger four cylinder units. The Formula Monza 875 Series was so successful that it attracted between eighty to one hundred and twenty cars and drivers to each meet- ing, driving to crowds of as many as 5, 000 paying spectators.

The series carries on today using modern engines keeping to the spirit of the 1960s. Surviving Monza’s are highly sought after and are being restored and raced in Retro Historical Events in Italy.

Current Owners History

Alberto Bellai driving an FZ Monza 875 in 1981. Believed to be the actual this very actual car.

This race car was owned by David Arrigo whom has sadly passed and is now in the possession of his family. Born in 1943, one of Malta’s prominent historic car enthusiasts and collectors. Pioneered historic car collecting in the 1960’s and owns the island’s oldest car, a 1904 Cadillac and other vintage and classic cars and motorcycles, a true enthusiast.

He was one of the only Maltese to participate in many international historic cars rallies. One of the pioneers of international marathon historic car rallies by participating in the 1997 Peking to Paris, the first of its kind, in a 1948 Allard. Drove also to Cape Town twice, once from Cairo via the east side of Southern Africa, then from London via Namibia and the west coast. Specialised in motoring journalism before taking to serious writing on the subject of Maltese social history.

He became involved in the international 2007 Grand Prix de Malte and the aborted 2008 edition of which the current Valletta Grand Prix is a local carbon copy. He participated with two cars in the 2009 edition and 2010 edition along with many others.

This car comes with a lot of history.

The full restoration of this car has been very well documented with hundreds of images, the buyer will get all of this along with the car.
Buyer will need to pay for all transport and shipping costs.