1975 Innocenti Export Mini

Innocenti was an Italian machinery works originally established by Ferdinando Innocenti in 1920. Over the years, they produced Lambretta scooters and, most notably, Mini's from 1965 until 1975 under license from British Leyland. Although the sales of Innocenti's second only behind Fiat in the early 1970s, a new manager was put in charge and at the end of his three-year tenure in 1975 the company was purchased out of near bankruptcy in February 1976 by Alejandro de Tomaso and was reorganized by the De Tomaso Group under the name Nuova Innocenti.

The Innocenti 1300 Export models are rare and this example was produced in the last month of production (January 1975) before the Innocenti plant was closed.