Emotion for the first edition of the Fratelli Cozzi Museum Trophy that awarded two cars capable of combining beauty and character.

A tribute to the courage to start again, a tribute to team spirit, a tribute to beauty, this is the meaning of the Fratelli Cozzi Museum Trophy that debuted in this 2020 so complicated. Two meetings organized in collaboration with CMAE and Ruoteclassiche, one scheduled for Saturday, September 26 and the second Sunday, September 27. On both days the oldest cars were awarded. Here are the names of the winners.

The trophy on Saturday was won by Stefano Valenti in the 1937 BENTLEY 4.15 Litre Aerofill Sport, a car that bewitched for its elegance and extraordinary state of maintenance.

The Fratelli Cozzi Museum Trophy on Sunday 27 September was instead awarded to Claudio Montagni's Fiat Balilla former army van 1934.

The vehicle was Fiat's response to a tender launched by the Royal Army in 1931 for a light tactical liaison and reconnaissance vehicle. In 1932 the Turin-based company presented a two-seater military version (spider) of its Fiat 508 Balilla, presented at the Milan Motor Show in the spring of the same year and already acquired by the armed forces in the normal saloon version. The Fiat model was the winner and went into production the same year, while the first examples arrived at the controls of the motorized units in 1933. The same year the Truck version for artillery units was developed and adopted.

In 1934 the 2nd series, derived from the Fiat 508B, and the 4-seater torpedo version went into production.

Stable, handy and with a very good acceleration, the 508M, in the different variants of the two series, had the baptism of fire during the Ethiopian War, during which emerged a certain fragility of the suspension, which were therefore modified. Largely used during the Spanish Civil War, its production was stopped in 1937 when it was replaced on the assembly lines by the Fiat 508CM and the military versions of the Fiat 1100. It was the Regio Army's main light transport vehicle during the Second World War, used for reconnaissance and connection. At the end of the conflict it remained in the refounded armed forces of the Italian Republic. (Wikipedia)