# Tarabella: has anybody heard of this car?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/tarabella-has-anybody-heard-of-this-car/131380>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [December 24, 2018, 10:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tarabella-has-anybody-heard-of-this-car/131380 "2018-12-24T22:55:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 10:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tarabella-has-anybody-heard-of-this-car/131380/1 "2018-12-24T22:55:58Z")

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45-46 years ago I saw a _Tarabella_ parked in the lot of the Safeway on Colorado & Sierra Madre (the big one) in Pasadena. The name was in cursive, so I may not have read it correctly. It looked like a fancy foreign car, likely expensive - small, low, perhaps only 2 seats. I’ve never found anyone else who has heard of it, not even _The Car Show_’s Len Frank & John Retsek (which, I suspect, means I was hallucinating). Has anyone here heard of it?

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**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 11:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tarabella-has-anybody-heard-of-this-car/131380/2 "2018-12-24T23:12:08Z")

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Bella I think is Italian for “beautiful”, so maybe it is an Italian car. Terra Bella translates as Beautiful Earth. Maybe an eco-car? Electric car?

Or maybe it was a Taraborelli Fiat ? [http://www.taraborelli.com/](http://www.taraborelli.com/)