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
This is one of the most wanted Alfa of the sixties, painted in one of the best shade available: it is called “Giallo Ocra” (Ochre yellow)and it comes with the car along with a good amount of rust. Maybe this car (chassis #AR252882) has lived most of its life in the rust belt but for… Read More Southern yellow: 1967 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT Veloce
This car is the tentative of copying a car actually made by Abarth back in 1967 on the Fiat 850 platform: it was called OT 2000 and it was, maybe, the most extreme road going car built by the factory. Five cars were built by Abarth in order to join the endurance competitions of that… Read More Hard-core replica: 1970 Abarth OT 2000 Coupé
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