[greg.harvey]

With suicide doors and a roof like that, it could only have been the original Nuova, 1957 to 1960. They're actually pretty rare these days. The wheel arches would've been a modification from the original. I'm told owning an original Nuova these days is only for the brave, as it is actually a different engine to the other models (not sure about the D, but certainly different from the F and L) and the parts are scarce and not interchangeable with newer models. Fixing them can be expensive!

For the interested, they stopped that roof in 1960 in favour of the shorter roof apperture seen from the 1960 500 D onwards. The D carried suicide doors through to 1965, but in all models built after 1965 the suicide doors were no longer used. The F, L and R all had 'normal' doors.

Identifying 500s can be tricky, especially the later ones. Ours for example (see attached) is an F - but it has L badging as it is a 1971 F overlapping with the L (they ran at the same time for a few years) so could be mistaken for an L. Lots of people put the wrong badges on them because they prefer the other type, but other giveaways include the dash, the front bumper, and (most convincing of all) the engine and chassis numbers! (110F.....) Beware F and L models being sold as a D. The D fetches more money and I've seen no end of mis-badged L and F cars being sold as a D when it clearly isn't. All D types had suicide doors! That's the key.