The day of the inauguration of the Turin Motor Show, 22 April 1953, was a memorable date in the history of automotive style; the highly profiled Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica 5 (B.A.T.), designed with exceptional creativity by Franco Scaglione, was presented at the Bertone stand. The body was a piece of wonderful skill by the panel beaters and appeared as an extravagant inspiration to critics and visitors of the Show, where the car displayed a rigorous design and the aim at revolutionising the difficult research work in the aerodynamic field with almost impracticable shapes. Built on Alfa Romeo 1900 Sprint mechanical components, the B.A.T. 5 also flaunted new technical-constructive solutions in the shaping of the wheelarche integral fairings and the spectacular, tapered and slightly converging tail fins. The car was sold to the American Stanley Harold Arnolt for USD 7,650 in October 1953 and then loaned to Herb Shriner, a specialized promotion man who displayed it at the International Motor Sports Show in New York (February 6-14, 1954), where the car was vainly offered at 25,000 US$. Arnolt kept it then in his showroom Hoosier International Motors in Warsaw, Indiana. The B.A.T. 5 covered about 11,000 kilometres up to 1956, when Arnolt sold it to a friend, Joe Prysak of South Bend, Indiana. In 1987, the car was offered for sale in Hemmings Motor News and bought by Said Marouf of La Jolla, California, who carried out a long restoration on it and then presented the vehicle at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.