It looks like what would happen if you left a Lamborghini Diablo and a Ferrari Testarossa alone in a garage with all of the usual 1980s vices and waited nine months. The wedge nose, the straked body, and the strange window lines all scream “1980s supercar” loudly. And in truth, there’s quite a bit more Diablo in this car than expected. The Cizeta-Moroder V16T is the result of Claudio Zampolli, a former designer who had worked with Lamborghini, seeing the Chrysler-softened lines of the Lamborghini Diablo and deciding that what he saw was not the car the Diablo was supposed to be. So he paired off with Giorgio Moroder, a music composer, and got Marcello Gandini to pen the lines. The V-12 used in the V16T was designed using two Lamborghini Urraco V8s, and was supposed to be capable of over 200 MPH when it came out in 1991. It is an interesting vehicle, even if it’s rarer than hen’s teeth and looks like the world’s fastest electric shaver.

This white car is the pre-production prototype, the only badged Cizeta-Moroder. After this car, Moroder’s involvement ceased and the car became just the Cizeta V16T. There are a handful of cars, period, though technically the company still exists and you can still order one if you have the cash to pay for it. But there is only one car badged Cizeta-Moroder…this one car. It’s the pre-production prototype, the car that Moroder held onto. It’s been in storage for decades, hasn’t really ran well, and is in need of a restoration. That job was handed off to Canepa, and this is the video of the work. Check it out: