Tony Bianchi at Wycombe is offering for sale a restored Fiat fighter trainer dating from 1950, with an Alfa Romeo licence-built Gipsy Six 225 hp engine. It is pictured in Pilot mag, looking dinky in an Italian WW2 camouflage scheme. It's a tandem two seater, retractable, tailwheel, 160 kts cruise. I assume that it has a wobbly prop. OK, so it's not a fer-real warbird, but it is interesting and (extremely) rare. Might be amusing to park at Airshows and fly-ins. Oh, and to fly, as well. I have a rough idea of how much they might be asking for it, but haven't checked as yet. I think that it might call for a group of six or more like-minded souls. Are any of you lot interested? If so, pplease email me via my pprune pprofile ppage.
PS: As thread-starter, I feel that I should exercise the privilege of deploying the Italian warbird "does it fly backwards?" gag (copyright 1939-1943)
Edit: here is a link to Mr Bianchi's website, which pictures the aircraft and asks for £130K
http://www.bianchiaviation.com/
Edit: Here is a bigger and clearer picture taken at Duxford
http://www.f4aviation.co.uk/airshow01/duxford/fiat.htm