There’s another Giulietta Spider Veloce for sale: also this car is said to be a 1962 car and also this one os a project: quite worse than the other Veloce posted two days ago. Differently from the black Veloce this is a type 101 (big taillights) and, if it has been built in 1962, this… Read More Another one: 1962 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider Veloce
The Renault 4CV is not much known in the classic car world, especially on the western side of the Atlantic, however we believe that’s a cute little car indeed, not less than many italian alternatives of that period. Indeed it was quite a smart car: a quite short body, four doors, rear water-cooled engine and… Read More Winter sales: 1961 Renault 4CV Affaire
This Spider Veloce has been advertised as a 1962 car but probably that year was about the first registration as this is definitely one of the last type 750 Giuliettas made. Indeed our Alfa Romeo literature tells us that the chassis number of this car (1495.10681) belongs to a Giulietta built in 1960 (but you just… Read More Wrong year: 1962 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider Veloce
Once again here it is a seller who doesn’t tell about the build year of the car he’s selling: the Grand Prix was built from 1968 to 1972 so let’s assume this is a 1970 car. A nearly fifty years old car which needs a lot of cares: this car has been parked for many… Read More Save me: 1970 Francis Lombardi Grand Prix
We are pretty sure that calling “Patina” the faded paint and some rust spot on the roof could be a bit too stretched but, on the other side, we have seen worse projects than this one. The car is quite surely an Euro version as we can’t spot any side marker or big bumpers which… Read More Enough patina: 1973 Lamborghini Espada
This Maserati Quattroporte (#AM107/1420) should be what is generally considered a a typical good basis for a full restoration job as it is quite complete: it misses the front bumper like many other projects we’ve seen so far and, actually, we still an’t understand why so many cars miss at least one. And for sure… Read More Four Borranis and one bumper: 1967 Maserati Quattroporte
January 9 It seems that the car has been sold a couple of days after this article. Indeed now the link opens with the other “spare” Multipla for sale by the same owner: this one is unfortunately in desperate conditions. January 5 This is one of those times when the seller doesn’t tell about the… Read More Two tone sleeper: 1959 Fiat 600 Multipla
The new year on Classic Virus starts with a seller submission: it’s a Mercedes-Benz 600 W100 series a.k.a. “Grosser”, which was also the favorite car of most dictators of that period. The seller is also a dealer and he says that he purchased the car little more than three weeks ago from the second owner in… Read More Seller submission: 1970 Mercedes-Benz 600 “Grosser”
December 31, 2015 – 28 months later In the last update of this article I wrote that “the car is almost ready”: indeed that “almost” was heavier than I could ever thought. Actually I’m not surprised at all about the follow up activities of a restoration job, but this is a complex car, more complex than… Read More A restoration tale: 1967 Maserati Ghibli 4.7 Coupé (update #15 – December 31)
This 1750 GTV is said to be a car which has been forgotten in a corner of an Alfa Romeo dealership for the past 40 years: it is said to have been always been stored in an enclosed space but the rust wee see tell us another story. Indeed we know well that these cars… Read More Forgotten: 1969 Alfa Romeo 1750 GT Veloce
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