Fiat 600

Coupe Viotti

The pre-war car manufacturing ecosystem was quite different from what we know today. There were hundreds of manufacturers in Europe, who were, to be rather simplistic, chassis manufacturers, with the rest of the work often done by a coachbuilder of the customer's choice. Vittorio Viotti, born at the beginning of the century, when he was less than 30 years old, started to work as a coachbuilder. His fame was born from an innovative concept called Clairapax Body giving a large glass surface to his cars by eliminating the use of wooden uprights. He then specialised in luxury bodywork, often in one-offs.