Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A Stabilimenti Farina family

The Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A Stabilimenti Farina represents the collaboration between an Italian luxury-car manufacturer and a specialist coachbuilder during the late 1920s. The Tipo 8A’s large straight-eight chassis offered a foundation for elaborate individual bodies, ranging from formal closed cars to open cabriolets. This catalogue entry describes a coachwork family rather than one verified individual chassis.

The Farina connection is supported by surviving evidence. A 1929 Tipo 8A cabriolet, chassis 1402, is documented by RM Sotheby’s with coachwork identification confirmed through stamped body components. Institutional catalogues also describe Tipo 8A bodies by Stabilimenti Farina in the same period. These examples establish the wider coachbuilder relationship, but their chassis numbers, ownership histories and body styles are not assigned to the generic vehicle represented here.

Carrozzieri Italiani’s earlier description included details of a purported individual car and its later restoration. Until an independent documentary connection is established, those particulars remain research leads rather than facts belonging to every Farina-bodied Tipo 8A. No exact production count for this coachwork family is asserted.