“Scraping the bottom of the barrel” is an old said but it fits to what is happening during the last years: the good finds are almost done and often cars like this jump on the market. We can’t say if that’s a ’54 or ’55 car (for sure it’s not younger or older than that)… Read More Wood find: 1954/55 Porsche 356 Coupé
This Fulvia Sport was built by Zagato one one of the early Fulvia chassis, also known as “Leva lunga”, which is to mention the long shift lever installed on the first series. The first specimens had a body made of Peraluman 25 which is a very light alloy made of aluminium and a little percentage… Read More Peraluman 25: 1967 Lancia Fulvia Sport 1.3 S by Zagato
This Alpina B7 Turbo started its life as a common BMW 630 CSi – factory code E24 – then was given by Alpina a complete treatment, involving both the engine and the exterior. Back then these were extremely expensive cars and indeed, only 153 of these were built between late 1978 and early 1982. It… Read More Unusual bimmer: 1979 Alpina B7 Turbo
The sellers of this 356C, that we know by reputation as they have dedicated their life to classic Porsches, say that whoever bought it new had one thing in mind: racing. That’s because of the option list of this car: apart from the roll bar installed by the first owner, the car has a limited… Read More Full setup: 1964 Porsche 356C
In the early seventies, to cutting edge of the Abarth family was the Scorpione produced in three different versions: “OT1300/124”, S and SS. This car has the SS badge, and that means that this is one of the six SS ever built. Having the SS badge means that the car has some peculiar solutions: the… Read More Unbeatable conditions: 1970 Abarth 1300 Scorpione SS
One of the top classic cars event in Europe, Auto e Moto d’Epoca, this year cracked the 100,000 sold tickets threshold during the five days from 25th to 29th of October: actually this year the cars exhibited were so many that the organizers had to prepare temporary halls to cover them all, and that is a… Read More Auto e Moto d’Epoca 2017
French car builders often used fiberglass to build their sports cars: it’s not a “noble” material such as aluminium, used mostly by italian coachbilders, but it’s light, cheap and easy to use. The DB (which is for Deutsch-Bonnet) HBR5 was a car built from 1955 to 1961 with a fiberglass body and a Panhard derived… Read More French fiberglass: 1960 DB HBR 5
Two cars built by Allemano are better than just one, so here it is a small roadster built by Allemano, this time using a Fiat 600 chassis. The starting point was, as just said, the Fiat 600 chassis and engine but of course this last one, as a tradition for Abarth, had a little boost… Read More Two in a row: 1958 Abarth 750 Spider by Allemano
Italian cars enthusiasts know well that the coachbuilt cars built on the Fiat 1100-103 are countless, and often some are almost unknown but sometimes they pops out, just like this one built by Allemano. It is neither a news to find this one for sale in Netherlands were classic cars enthusiast are many, and many… Read More Forgotten coachbuilt: 1955 Fiat 1100 TV Trasformabile by Allemano
This Citroen SM is one of the few seen so far with a black livery which, actually, fits extremely good the odd lines of this car. This car combines the extreme design of the Citroen with the Maserati V6 engine with a displacement up to 3000 c.c: this particular car has a 2.7 litre engine… Read More Black tie: 1972 Citroen SM
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