Patriarca
Officina Patriarca, Rome
Workshop:
Rome, San Giovanni district
Photo: Buch-t, Wikimedia Commons, GFDL 1.2, cropped
Rodolfo Patriarca (born 1908) came to Rome from the Abruzzo in the 1930s and opened a workshop in the San Giovanni district. With his sons Bruno and Franco he built racing and sports cars with Fiat mechanicals: 750 sports cars after the war, from 1959 Formula Baby Junior single-seaters with the Fiat 500 twin, later Formula 850 cars. In 1974 the workshop built an off-road vehicle with Fiat 500 mechanicals.
On the Formula Baby Junior: Patriarca in Formula 875
The car from the Bruno Patriarca workshop
One open car on a Fiat 500 base is known, registration T48922 ROMA. Whether it is the 1974 off-road vehicle is not known.
