Following its motor show duties, the unique Ghia-bodied Abarth 1100 Sport was sold to American entrepreneur Bill Vaughn. He was greatly impressed by Italian sports cars and had hatched a plan to create fibreglass bodied replicas under his own name. For this purpose, the 1100 Sport was shown at the 1954 New York Auto Show as Vaughn SS Wildcat. Vaughn's plans never came to fruition, and the one-off Abarth disappeared from sight. It eventually resurfaced, in a rather derelict condition, in the collection of California-based sports car enthusiast Norbert McNamara.
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