By the end of the 1960s, Abarth was no longer the scrappy, cigar-smoking tuning house that had once terrified Fiat, Alfa Romeo, and even Ferrari.

When Alfa Romeo introduced the 156 Superturismo 2-liter race car engine for the 1997 racing season, it probably never imagined that a privateer hillclimb racer would put one in their ultra-lightweight ...