What we have here is, like the other car already published, one of the many kit car experiments based on the reliable VW Beetle chassis. Differently from the other one, this is a Coupé GT. Differently from the Vokaro which we ave never seen, the Bradley was quite a successful kit car in the USA, indeed… Read More Inspected, registered, driven: 1975 Bradley GT II
We know this car: we’ve seen it for sale in Italy about six years ago at a dealer in the north-east of Italy. Then it disappeared and now it has migrated in Germany, where it’s actually for sale. This barchetta was built by Trevisan, a coachbuilder located in the north-east of Italy: we know very few… Read More Alfa inspiration: 1954 Fiat 500C Barchetta by Trevisan
Again, we’ve found a car which we didn’t know the existence of: it’s a kit car based on the VW Beetle (the platform of many kit car, basically the main platform for almost every kit car ever produced) and it was built by Vopard Industries in Suisun City, CA. As the period advertising says, Vopard… Read More Topless beetle: 1967 Vopard Vokaro
The swivel seat are the typical feature of these spider built from 1955 to 1959: the first series were based on the 1100 TV engine while later cars like this have a 1200 cc engine and different trims. These cars were designed by Luigi Rapi at Fiat Carrozzerie Speciali (the special coach division of Fiat);… Read More Swivel seats: 1958 Fiat 1200 TV Spider
Spider not because it’s open, of course, but because the nose of this car always reminded us of the four eyes of the well known arachnid. This is not the first R8 Gordini we have spotted for sale in France where, of course, these cars were built by Renault which gave their engine to Henry Frétet and Amedeo Gordini, the… Read More Spider face: 1970 Renault R8 Gordini
The seller of this silver Quattroporte says that the restoratin of the car has already started but, actually, the only beginning that we can see is about some parts removed and nothing else. The car is painted in an elegant – although boring – silver shade mated to a black leather interiors which don’t look… Read More Car and crates: 1969 Maserati Quattroporte
This is the second Sumbeam venezia we stumble on in three years and that doesn’t astonish us as this car is very rare as 140 were built, and just an handful of these has survived until nowadays. This car, revealed the first time to the press in 1963 in San Marco square in Venezia, Italy, was… Read More The italian job/2: 1964 Sunbeam Venezia by Touring
In these days Autoclassica, one of the most important classic car events of Italy, has been held just outside of Milano, Italy. It was plenty of classic cars, of course, but there are less spare parts sellers than the one held in October in Padova, Italy, which still remains the biggest event in Italy and one of the… Read More Autoclassica 2016
This 1750 GT Veloce (chassis # AR1531198) is said to be a super solid car and, indeed, we are quite astonished by how this car looks solid and rustless. The good (for us) it’s that the original color of this car is the same Ochre Yellow of the GTV published last friday: maybe not everyone… Read More Yellow heart: 1968 Alfa Romeo 1750 GT Veloce
The first thing that has caught our attention about this car is the beautiful pale blue mated to the striking red leather interiors. Then we realized that this coupé has the OSCA engine too. That’s not the most powerful Fiat OSCA made (like the 1600S 118B): this engine is 100 c.c. smaller and it is fed… Read More Blue meets red: 1961 Fiat 1500 OSCA Coupé by Pininfarina
Classic Virus 