Dry weight of 1035 kgs (2281 lbs), 170 hp, one turbocharger, 341 units made, one color available: these are the numbers belonging to one of the rarest Alfa made between 1983 and 1984. Of course the engine of his car was the legendary “Bialbero” but fed by an AVIO Alfa Romeo TC2000 turbocharger (often replaced by… Read More Barely driven/2: 1984 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Turbodelta
Would you like to be the most hated participant at your local Cars and Coffee? This Espada is the thing for you. Of course we perfectly understand the reason of these modifications: we still remember well when these cars, no more than ten years ago, weren’t worth much money and then, if an engine like… Read More Sacrilege: 1970 Lamborghini Espada
“Mostro” in italian means monster: this was the nickname given by Abarth to the OT 2000, a Fiat 850 with widened rear wings and equipped with an Abarth twin cam, 2000 c.c. engine. The “Mostro” was a one-off car (now in a private collection in Japan) but it unleashed the fantasy of many: who built… Read More Mostro: 1965 Abarth OT 2000 recreation
The plate of this Espada S3 says it all: this car was part of the owner’s world and part of it was actually painted in pink. The oddest thing about this car is not just the color but also that this paint was sprayed when the car was restored in 1992; so it isn’t just… Read More My world: 1974 Lamborghini Espada
The WWII period Beetles are actually the Holy Grail for every Volkswagen collector: this one (chassis #033588) not only belongs to that period, it is actually said to have been delivered new to the staff of Hermann Goering, probably the most powerful person in Germany after Hitler himself. The seller says that the story of… Read More Nazi past: 1944 Volkswagen Typ 82E
We’ve spotted this Veloce on ebay more than one week ago but we decided not to publish it as the asking price seemed out of this world, however we’re here also to track these cars so here it is. The funny world of classic cars often surprises us, but just when you think to have… Read More Barely driven: 1964 Alfa Romeo Giulia Spider Veloce
Never this bad. We’ve seen many Maserati 3500 projects but we’ve never seen a car hated like this one: it seems to have been considered just as an aluminium stash. The engine is there but unfortunately it’s just one among a ton of missng parts: the interiors are gone as well as the floors, no… Read More Dismembered: 1962 Maserati 3500 GT by Touring
We know that it’s quite easy to find a 2000 berlina for sale, but it’s not easy at all to spot one completely restored at the asking price of this one. Indeed using the word “clean” for this car is an euphemism: this car has been restored to bare metal and then completely re-assembled from… Read More More than clean: 1971 Alfa Romeo 2000 Berlina
Dual carbs, Navarro intake, Thickstun heads on a flathead Ford V8 is what pushes this beautiful fiberglass roaster built in 1957. Actually this is another fiberglass car published in a very short amount of time but, unfortunetely, we can’t decide when special cars pop out for sale so here it is: another beautiful example of… Read More Not steel: 1957 Byers Special SR100
It looks like, even though slowly, there is a rising interest on these fiberglass cars built in the decade between the mid 60s and 70s. Here it is a representative of that era. It is a Fiberfab Avenger GT, the same model of that we’ve published here eight months ago: the red one was… Read More Rising fiber: 1966 Fiberfab Avenger GT
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