Nowhere was motorsport more passionately practiced after the war than in Italy. Everywhere, small two-man businesses sprang up to try their hand at building racing cars - sometimes with more, sometimes with less success. The Americans, of all people, were responsible for one of the most beautiful and sophisticated of these. This article tells the story of the SVA, with which the former Cisitalia engineer Giovanni Savonuzzi wanted to conquer the USA, and shows it in many historical pictures.