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The end of the war saw the Beretta arms concern in Brescia with a large number of emplyoees and facilities non being well utilised. One idea was to switch these to producing motor cars, and so Giuseppe Beretta, with a friend, Luigi Castelbarco, and Giuseppe Benelli, the motorbike designer, put a plan into action in 1948. Castelbarco co-ordinated the project, Benelli designed the air-cooled 750cc V-twin and Beretta produced both the engine and the square-tube frame chassis. The body was built by Rosso, a coachbuilder in Turin.
Three of the front-engined, front-wheel-drive, four-seat, two-door cars were built, predating the styling of the Fiat 1400, albeit on a much smaller scale. Due to other factors, Beretta decided not to proceed with the project, and no more examples were ever produced. Source
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