Fiat Test Track On Roof

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Fiat test track on roof.

Fiat rooftop test track in turin 1920s 1920s vintage 26 november 2019 0. Fiat s lingotto factory was completed in 1923. View of fiat lingotto factory with test track on the roof in 1928 spiral roadway to move cars up to a higher level of the former fiat lingotto factory in turin lingotto is a district of turin italy and the location of the lingotto building on the via nizza. It s nothing special and the majority of shops carry very average stuff.

The factory s assembly line began at the ground floor and ended on the. Unlike any other automobile factory to date the factory featured a spiral assembly line that moved up through the building and a concrete banked. Located in the heart of the city its original owners fiat made clever use of the available real estate by building a high speed test track on the building s unusual banked rooftop where thousands of fiats underwent testing once they came out at the end of the assembly line. However the other side still displays the original bricks used to form the rooftop test track.

The track featured is a real race track built on the roof of a fiat factorythat opened in turin s ligotto district in 1923. You may recognise this distinctive fiat test track on top of the building from a scene in the 1969 film the italian job with michael caine which was filmed in turin. However the fiat test track remains on the roof in well maintain condition after nearly 100 years of weathering. The lingotto building in turin italy once housed a fiat factory.

Fiat rooftop test track interesting but not really worthwhile. Construction started in 1916 and the building opened in 1923. Worth the visit is the pinoteca. The building itself gets a star due to the ingenuity of turning an old fiat.