Giannini 500TV Montecarlo & Giannini 650NP Modena By Protobuilders' Garage 1.0

Protobuilders' Garage Proudly presents,
The Giannini 500TV & Giannini 650NP mod for GT Legends
Based on the Abarth 695SS Assetto Corsa By Speedster63

Installation:
- Extract package to your GTL folder.


Brought to you by:
*The Protobuilders Garage and Friends*
- Basic Fiat 500 model from Speedste63's Abarth 695SS Assetto Corsa.
- Sounds: Citytea originally made for the Abarth 695SS
- 3D, texture and template modifications and new skins: Nappe1
- low profile 10" rims for 650NP: Papag21 of Brickyard Legends Team
- New suspension (which unfortunately could not made to the first version): Gravin
- Physics: Nappe1
- Skin ideas & support: Suti, Kanadanmajava.
- Physics, car structures and putting everything together: Nappe1

Acknowledgements / Thanks:
- My lovely wife for her patience and support
- Speedster63 for original 695SS
- Simbin AB: for the great game
- Everyone at Protobuilders Garage and Brickyard Legends.


Notes:
car is based on Speedster63's very nice 695SS model and I tried to reach him via email about permission, but without success. However in readme he grants rights to use his work as base for additional modding as long as he is creditted so I started the work on that basis. the 850cc cars were small hit in previous online championship, I decided to work with even smaller engine cars. As the Shotaro's Suzuki Fronte Coupe originally belongs to under 500cc class, it needed some down tuned physics variation and of course, real world competition, so I decided to make the smallest racing variation that Fiat 500 had: Giannini 500TV Montecarlo. While doing it, I got idea of updating Speedster63's Abarth by adding 1970-1971 695SS Competizione body style. (Which is available as anothher mod.)

Car as short: Fiat 500F (F means front latched doors) with high tune 499cc air cooled two inline outputting around 30 horse power. Car weights around 460 kgs. Giannini was the Abarth's competition in mid 60's and early 70's and while it is mixed up with Abarth sometimes, it really was own make with several Fiat 500 based cars homologated to Group 2 (meaning that at least 1000 identical cars were built)

Abarth is sometimes called as Ferrari of small fiats. I think it is propriate to call Giannini as Lamborghini of small fiats. Their cars are not as refined as Abarth's and their consentration is more on the raw performance. Plus they did all this with almost one of the tenth of the resources that Abarth had.

I am hoping to add also 590GT Vallelunga as well as the 700R later on.


The Story:
In 1885 Giannini opened as garage, but in 1922 it became part of the Itala's service network and they started to tune and race Itala machinery. The biggest achievement from this period was the class victory in 1927 Mille Miglia. 1930's Giannini expanded their work to smaller cars like Fiat 500 Topolino. In addition to engine modifications, the brake arrangements were also changed. In 1938 Giannini broke a number of world records with a single seat racer powered by one of these 499 cc engines, equipped with a Siata head.

After the world war II and short venture in heavy machinery, Giannini brothers started really consentrate on competition, in which they had good track recond already from the 20's and 30's. Still based on pre-war Topolino basics, G1 and G2 engines were built, from which Twincam G2 powered "Giaur" took another class victory from 1950 Mille Miglia. During the 1950's the company rapidly expanded it sales by opening several Fiat sale outlets and garages. Though the sales were strong the company ended up in bad financial situation in 1961 and was closed. The Two Brothers disagreed about the direction taken and decided to go seperate ways. Two companies were born from which the Giannini Automobili S.p.A. is the one we are more interested.

In 1961-1963 Domeco Giannini had seen Abarth to sell tuning kit for the "new" Fiat 500 and saw it potential. In 1963 Giannini 500TV was launched as first as kit form and later on as readily built car. Kit itself was quite simple and not that expensive, but it boosted the normal 500 18hp to 27hp. (This might not sound much, but it is was done without boring the cylinders, so just some camshaft, head and carburation work. In nowadays terms, it would be same as there would be kit for Toyota Aygo / Peugeot 107 / Citroen C1 boosting it 72hp to 108hp!)

As these cars were made to race, Gianninis were soon seen eating standard Fiat 500 Sports alive in Italian Championship class under 500cc. In 1966, For the maximum performance you could have "Montecarlo" package, which added even bigger valves, nitrated camshaft, bigger carbs and new exhaust system. This boosted the horsepower up to 35hp. As this version had quite extensive modifications, Giannini 500TV got homologated to group 2, making it at last completely it's own car. And of course as the Abarth had dropped the original 500 Abarth kit and moved on to under 600cc and under 700cc classes (with 595 and 695 models), The 500cc class became Giannini's monopoly.

As the 500TV sold very well, Giannini decided to challenge Abarth also in 600cc class with Giannini 590GT and soon after that also in 700cc class with 650NP. Unlike Abarth, Giannini made their bigger engines with smaller bore and shorter stroke, making them rev higher and as a result the amount of power was also bigger. Both of them get eventually homologated and also factory works kits: for 590GT it was called "Vallelunga" and for 650NP "Modena". While 500TV kept the 500cc class crown for itself easily, 590GT and 650NP were extensively developed due neck to neck competition against Abarth. The last batch of under 700cc Gianninis had newer block from Fiat 126 with fuel injection, big disc brakes and much stronger gearbox. This all was possible thanks to homologating 650NP in 1969 to Group 2 and the very liberal group 2 rules in early 70's. These last cars were labelled as Giannini 700R.




The Different variations in this mod:

Giannini 500TV Montecarlo:
The works car as on it's peak just before the 500cc class was dropped.
Real world skins:
- #4 driven by Antonio Ghini in 1968.
- #30 is Italian Class Champion in 1966. Driven by: Maurizio Zanetti
- #222 driven by Luca Cordero di Montezemolo in Vallelunga 1968
- #34 real world skin, but unknown driver & event.
- a lots of individual gear ratios to fiddle to get every single bit of torque out of that tiny engine.

Giannini 650NP Modena:
The works car in early 70's. Before the Fiat 126 mechanics were put in place.
Real world skins:
- #24 Historic racing skin with unknown driver.
- #174, #214 Fictional skins.
- lots of stuff to tune in setup to keep the small car flying thru corners.


Skinning & Modding:
- Template included for both cars.
- Genstring options:
Pos 1= Driver ( 01 - 10 )
Pos 2= Driver ( 01 - 10 )
Pos 3= Front Bumper ( 1= Bumper front 2= Bumper front & Plate 3= NO Bumper front )
Pos 4= Rear Bumper ( 1= Bumper rear 2= Bumper rear & Plate 3= NO Bumper rear )
Pos 5= SoftTop ( 1= SoftTop plastic 2= SoftTop paint )
Pos 6= Exhaust ( 1= one Pipe 2= two Pipe )
Pos 7= WHEELS ( 1= Black hubcab wheels for 500TV and 4 blade black light alloy wheels 650NP. Hopefully more options in future.)
Pos 8= Rollcage ( 1= YES 2= NO )
Pos 9= Race Upgrade ( 1= YES 2= NO )
Pos 10= GIANNINI MODEL ( 2= 650NP 3 = 500TV )
Pos 11= BODY ADDITIONS ( 1= normal 2= chrome doorsteps 3 = chrome side strips 4 = 2+3 combined )

Conversion to other games:
Permission needed from ALL AUTHORS and when granted, original authors must be mentioned.


Version History:
- 1.0: 21. Feb, 2020: First release version.



Nappe1 Signs off,
21st of February, 2020.