The classic barchetta either had no doors, in which case entry and exit entailed stepping over the side of the car, or very small doors without exterior handles.

Typically handmade in aluminium on a tubular frame, the classic barchetta body is devoid of bumpers or any weather equipment such as a canvas top or sidescreens, and has no provision for luggage.

In 1949 the 166MM barchetta also won the 24 Hours of Le Mans ( driven by Luigi Chinetti and Lord Selsdon ) and the Targa Florio ( with Clemente Biondetti and Igor Troubetzkoy ), the only car ever to win all three races in the same year.

The 1966 Abarth 1000SP barchetta was a successful race car, and in 2007 the car design firm Carrozzeria Bertone celebrated its 95th anniversary with the Fiat Panda-based Fiat Barchetta Bertone, an " open-topped strictly two-seater sports car that calls to mind the Italian racing cars of the 1950s.

In this case, the design explicitly cites the Fiat 500 with the barchetta bodywork created by the young Nuccio Bertone in 1947 as a one-off for his personal use in races projects the concept of the barchetta, a historic icon in the legend of Italian motorsports, into the future with purposeful elegance and sophisticated irony.

The 250 MM's wheelbase was longer than the 250 S at, with the coupe heavier than the barchetta.

The 250 MM's race debut was at the 1953 Giro di Sicilia with privateer Paulo Marzotto, and a Carrozzeria Morelli-bodied 250 MM barchetta driven by Clemente Biondetti came fourth in the 1954 Mille Miglia.

In 1953, using the concept of a barchetta that he raced at Le Mans, Rosier, together with Italian coachbuilder Rocco Motto, designed a cabriolet, still using 4CV Renault sub assemblies.

The Guarà is available in coupé and barchetta versions and based on a Maserati competition car from 1991, the Guarà uses Ford and BMW parts in a composite body.

Capturing the attention of public and experts alike at the 1992 Turin Motor Show was the aggressively futuristic Blitz barchetta, a showcar which featured an electric engine and avant-garde construction solutions.

Made of aluminium in the barchetta style, it was devoid of road-going items such as carpets, weather equipment and exterior door handles.

A barchetta (, " little boat " in Italian ) was originally an Italian style of open 2-seater sports car which was built for racing.

Giovanni Canestrini, when editor of La Gazzetta dello Sport, a popular Italian sporting newspaper, was the very first to bestow the sobriquet " barchetta " on a car, using it to describe the new Ferrari 166MM displayed at the 1948 Turin Auto Show.

The OSCA MT4, a 1452 cc, barchetta made by the Maserati brothers, was for eight years the most successful under-1500 cc sports racing car in the world.

The 2000 Renault Spider, although mid-engined, was designed very much in the barchetta style, and also in the barchetta tradition, as it was intended for racing.

Despite its name, the 1995-2005 Fiat Barchetta was not a sports car in the barchetta style or tradition.

It describes the future where motor vehicles have become large and ungainly for the purpose of safety, but the narrator visits his uncle every week to race a barchetta through the countryside.

Cici's first major project was to create a body for the Ferrari 166 Mille Miglia Touring barchetta, which debuted in 1948.

Two of the two-seat sports prototypes were built, an open barchetta and closed coupe both by Vignale.

Carrozzeria Vignale's open barchetta version was also an innovative design whose recessed headlights and side vents became a Ferrari staple for the 1950s.

The first two used the Pininfarina barchetta shape of the 750 Monza and a one-off 500 Mondial.

Presented at the 1993 Geneva Motor Show, the Guarà was available as a coupé and later as a spider and also as an open barchetta.

By 2001, the flat band slingshot had disappeared from commercial production in favour of the tubular band.

Some bridges thus had deliberate openings, usually tubular, in their spandrels to allow floodwater to pass through.

However, he kept considering the problem after the contract had finished, and eventually developed a tubular device, designed to run underwater on its own, and powered by compressed air.

Previously material had to be knitted in the round ( in a tubular form ) and cut it open.

A broad black band was applied to some tubular paper capacitors to indicate the end that had the outer electrode ; this allowed this end to be connected to chassis ground to provide some shielding against hum and noise pickup.

Only the covered wings and tubular fuselage framework of the J 3 were ever completed, before the project was abandoned-the slightly later Junkers J. I armored sesquiplane had its all-metal wings and horizontal stabilizer made in the same manner as the J 3's wings had been, along with the experimental and airworthy all-duralumin Junkers J 7 single seat fighter design, which led to the Junkers D. I low-wing monoplane fighter introducing all-duralumin aircraft structural technology to German military aviation in 1918.

He played with this chrome tubular steel racket until 1984, when most other pros had shifted to new racket technologies, materials, and designs.

One of the early, equal wheel carrier cycles Pashley sold in the 1930s ( the ' Model L ' for £ 7. 10. 0 ) had a front metal tubular carrier and nameplate in a similar manner to the ' Courier ' that the company sells currently.

To hold the larger engines, the chassis had reinforced side rails and centre pillar, and a tubular crossmember support under the transmission.

It had twin 175 Stromberg carburettors, high-lift camshaft and free-flow tubular exhaust manifold.

This bridge had the novel design of wrought-iron box-section tubes to carry railway line inside them, because a tubular design using wrought-iron gave the greatest strength and flexibility.

Trade website BikeBiz. com revealed that the weaknesses of the tubular pin tumbler mechanism had first been described in 1992 by UK journalist John Stuart Clark ( see Kryptonite lock ).

The Martin-Baker M. B. 5 which first flew in 1944 had started out as the second MB3 prototype but was extensively redesigned with a tubular steel fuselage.

Regrettably, the new carbine's tubular magazine had to be shortened as well, reducing cartridge capacity to only three rounds in the magazine plus one round in the transporter.

Cars for the North Americas market had Volvo in-line 6 cyl 3 Ltr engines coupled to Borg-Warner automatic transmissions, tubular steel space frames, a higher ride height and no headlight covers, in order to get US road certification.

It consists of an 80 metre high reinforced concrete tower, and until a fire accident on July 15, 2011, had a guyed tubular mast mounted on top.

The main European market 328 GTS models had a tubular chassis with a factory type reference F 106 MS 100.

Her circular glass E-1027 table and rotund Bibendum armchair were inspired by the recent tubular steel experiments of Marcel Breuer at the Bauhaus ( who had been inspired, in turn, by Mart Stam ).

During this time, Chandler began working with computer-aided design ( CAD ) programs, and using technology he had learned from professional off-road racing, designed a tubular frame for his next Bigfoot truck, along with a suspension system sporting two feet of travel.

Early Stanley cars had light wooden bodies mounted on tubular steel frames by means of full-elliptic springs.

They also had a fully sprung tubular steel frame.

The original MBS boards, known as ' Frame Boards ' had a small wooden deck metal posts to hold the rider's feet, a tubular metal frame connecting trucks which used springs to enable steering and thus create the carving sensation that the MBS co-founders were looking for.

These cars had some of features of the later Volkswagen Beetle, such as the tubular chassis, rear-mounted engine and independent wheel suspension with swing axles.