One side of the fiat race track on the roof has been filled with tar presumably to prevent leakage through the ceiling.
Fiat test track on roof.
One of the shooting.
The lingotto building in turin italy once housed a fiat factory.
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.
Fiat rooftop test track interesting but not really worthwhile.
Fiat rooftop test track in turin 1920s 1920s vintage 26 november 2019 0.
It s nothing special and the majority of shops carry very average stuff.
Construction started in 1916 and the building opened in 1923.
Don t waste your time.
The design by young architect matté trucco was unusual in that it had five floors with raw materials going in at the ground floor and cars built on a line that went up through the building.
The factory s assembly line began at the ground floor and ended on the.
The building itself gets a star due to the ingenuity of turning an old fiat.
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.
Worth the visit is the pinoteca.
Unlike any other automobile factory to date the factory featured a spiral assembly line that moved up through the building and a concrete banked.
However the fiat test track remains on the roof in well maintain condition after nearly 100 years of weathering.
Fiat s lingotto factory was completed in 1923.