Restomod, Design, Development

Venduetto

A 1750 Duetto Spider, rebuilt as something that cannot be bought. Vendetta + Duetto: a single-seat, Rosso Cordoba interpretation of the round-tail Duetto, with every new part designed and made at Tornante Studio.

Venduetto in Rosso Cordoba in a white studio

Why the vendetta

Fifteen kilometres in, the steering box caught fire. I bought the Duetto in 2023. Fifteen kilometres later it was on fire, so I handed it to a self-declared expert in Achterveld for a proper restoration. A six-figure bill later the car lay in pieces on his floor with no end in sight anywhere.

I collected it in boxes and took the build into my own hands. That is where the name comes from — a vendetta, carried out in carbon. It is not going back to standard. It is being rebuilt as a single-seat, Rosso Cordoba interpretation of the round-tail Duetto.

The rule: every new part is designed and made at Tornante Studio. Nothing outsourced, nothing watered down, no deadline that belongs to somebody else.

The workshop behind it

An automotive design studio. We design and build parts for cars that were never meant to have them — carbon lay-up, CNC work and finishing under one roof. That is the only reason the Venduetto can be built this way. Every part on this car is a studio part. The ones that earn it end up in the catalogue.

Follow the build on venduetto.com.

Specification, as it stands today.

Brakes
Discs, four wheels
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Wheels
TBD
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Dry weight (target)
< 900 kg
< 1985 lbs
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Width
1630 mm
5' 4"
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Length
4250 mm
13' 11"
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Wheelbase
2250 mm
7' 5"
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Seats
One, carbon shell
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Body panels
Carbon / steel
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Hot parts
Cerakote Burnt Bronze
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Accents
GM Zeus
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Colour
Ferrari Rosso Cordoba
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Gearbox
5-speed manual
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Power
TBD
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Displacement
1779 cc
108 cu in
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Engine
Alfa twin cam, 4 in line
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Base
1750 Duetto Spider
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TBD — not fixed yet. This table updates as the build does.

Everything new on this car, we make ourselves.

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Helmet Shell

Our own studio project, going into a car for the first time — the anchor of the cockpit.

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Rear seat delete

The bench goes; one carbon panel takes its place. Weight out, clean deck behind the driver.

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Carbon fibre front lip

Drawn against the scanned nose, so it follows the Pininfarina line instead of fighting it.

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Custom fender mirror

A single mirror far forward on the wing, machined to match the car’s hardware family.

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Custom carbon bucket seat with tan leather and herringbone fabric
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Custom carbon bucket seat

One seat, laid up in-house and shaped around the driver. Fixed-back, no rails to hide.

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Finish — Ferrari Rosso Cordoba over GM Zeus accents. Everything that gets hot goes out in Cerakote Burnt Bronze.

Build log

Project updates

Latest first

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Measurements
September 15, 2026

Teardown & 3D scan

Bare shell scanned, so every new part is designed against real geometry instead of guesswork. In progress.

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Design
August 15, 2026

Venduetto begins

The build goes public: name, logo, direction. Not a restoration — a full custom on the round-tail Duetto.

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June 15, 2026

The restoration that never ended

2023–2026. Six figures spent, the car fully apart, no finish line in sight. I collected it in boxes and stopped outsourcing.

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June 15, 2023

Bought, then burnt

Fifteen kilometres after buying the Duetto the steering box caught fire.

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