It’s not a sacrilege to affirm that people like George Barris, Ed Roth, Darryl Starbird, Dean Jeffries and few other have been for the U.S. car culture what Pininfarina, Bertone, Boano etc. have been for Europe. Of course back in the early fifties U.S.A. and Europe were two different worlds with different needs so the… Read More Tubs’ car: 1951 Lincoln Lido Coupé by Barris
This Abarth 695 SS is said to be in pristine conditions and to have low miles as it has been acquired from a Museum in Europe. These are basically the only information provided. On the other side, the seller has linked a huge set of photos which are fundamental to understand what’s correct and what’s… Read More Out of museum: 1965 Abarth 695 SS
This is not the first time we find a DB2/4 for sale in need of a total restoration, however it’s the first time that we see one for sale spread around a garage. That is because someone has begun to disassemble the car in order to perform a serious restoration job on this blue chip… Read More Puzzling puzzle: 1957 Aston Martin DB2/4
There is a very active bidding for this survivor 356 C Cabrio (chassis #161129) which actually should be a full matching number car, well preserved during the last 50 years. Full matching numbers car not because so says the Kardex but because the car has a full pack of documentation since it was new, among… Read More No shenanigans: 1965 Porsche 356 C Cabrio
This GTV comes from San Diego, CA, where it has been for sure parked under the sun for many years: the result is a roasted car which, however, is complete at the same time. This car should have been born painted in a beautiful Dark Pine Green which is almost gone now: we can spot… Read More Roasted but complete: 1967 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT Veloce
The car you’re looking at is one of 302 produced, of which around 80 with the steering wheel on the left. So that’s quite a rare car especially because it looks to be in great conditions. The seller says that the car has a little more than 31k miles and that it was last driven… Read More Left handed: 1953 Alvis TA21 Drophead Coupé
Although not big as they were used in the U.S. cars, also Italian designers adopted the use of fins on many italian cars: Vignale was the master in this fashion but even others less known designers like Viotti didn’t disdain to put them on his coachbuilt cars. This coupè was bult, needless to say, on… Read More Pure fifties: 1959 Fiat 1200 Gran Turismo by Viotti
Well, this blog is focused mainly on classic cars and that’s clear for everyone. However, what drives the passion for the four wheeled machines doesn’t change: no matter if a car still is built with metal and fed by carburetors or built with carbon fiber and pushed by a four-turbo engine, some things never change.… Read More True spirit: The EB110 story
It’s absolutely unusual to see an OSI 20M TS in the U.S: indeeed this car, built in Turin, Italy, by Officine Stampaggi Industriali (hence “OSI) is pretty rare even in Europe. This car is said to be the 175th specimen built and it need a lot of work: it is sleeping since many years in… Read More Rare cruiser: 1968 OSI 20M TS
This Speedster (chassis #82204) is one of the last driver around (at least we’ve seen few of them lately) as the last big job done on it was a repaint, 40 years ago. Actually the paint looks not bad but the seller says that it has some cracks and bubbles around even though they aren’t… Read More Cracks and bubbles: 1956 Porsche 356A Speedster
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