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| Stanguellini Formula Junior 1959 |
The Stanguellini family were automotive pioneers. By the time Vittorio Stanguellini came to head the family engineering business in Modena, their relationship with cars was already well established. His grandfather had been the first person to own a car in Modena, and a FIAT dealership was already a part of the family firm.
Adopting some of its styling cues from the Maserati 250F, the Stanguellini featured a tubular ladder-frame chassis that offset the driver to the left to clear the prop-shaft and was powered by a tuned Fiat 1100 engine. These cars were highly competitive in Formula Junior, a category under Formula One from 1958 to 1963. Notably, Stanguellini won the first season
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| Stanguellini Formula Junior 1959 |
of the Italian Formula Junior championship, and drivers like Bandini and von Trips also won races behind the wheel of a Stanguellini.
Chassis number 00201 was purchased from the Stanguellini family in 1982 and was raced across Europe during the 1980s at events including Monza Historica and the Coppa Intereuropa. Since then, the car has been on static display in a private collection. It has been refinished in red with red leather cockpit trim, and its overhead-valve 1,089–cubic centimetre engine is equipped with two twin-choke Weber carburettors.
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