Virgilio Conrero has been one of the most famous and successful italian tuner of the last century. His career as a tuner began putting his hands on Cisitalia’s soon after the WWII, but his name is mostly gathered with Alfa Romeo: he built his first twin plug head in 1954 and succesfully tuned a lot… Read More Touched by the Genius: 1970 Opel 1900 GT “Conrero Edition”
This blog is now the official home of these cars. Here in another one living in France (like most of these cars, if you exclude Germany) which looks quite good. Differently from the other OSI 20M TS published here, this car has a little boss on the bonnet which could maybe hide an engine bigger… Read More Gimme one more: 1968 OSI 20M TS Coupé
Two are the odd things about this ad: the first is that the seller says that this car was originally painted in “banana yellow”, but so far we didn’t know that was a shade used by Bertone. The other thing is that now the car is painted in a dark bronze color outside, while the engine… Read More Banana, chocolate and tomato: 1957 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint
Once again, here is a photo report from this edition of the Vernasca Silver Flag, the historic evocation of the hillclimb race. As usual, no lawn here: every car is asked to growl and run uphill from Castell’Arquato to Vernasca: 8,5 km of bends. This year the Flag is dedicated to the genius of Vincenzo… Read More Vernasca Silver Flag 2014
Actually “Peppe” is the name written by the seller on the ad, we don’t know if it’s real but the most interesting thing is for sure the yellow Innocenti 950 Coupé. We’ve published another car like this one some months ago: we told that it is a rare car and now we realize that probably the… Read More Peppe’s yellow little bird: 1969 Innocenti 950 Coupé
“Where does he get all those wonderful toys?” (Joker/Jack Nicholson, Batman, 1989) Here another mr. Rapley’s find; this time is a big toy from 1959 made by Zagato (chassis #824.00-1181): basically, just after the B24S series, this is the most valuable classic Lancia road model on the market today. This is a super dry… Read More Just another hat trick: 1959 Lancia Flaminia Sport by Zagato
Abarth was the most famous Fiat tuner: more than a tuner, during the years he became a legend. However, far from Torino (in Rome, exactly) there were two brothers who, since the early post war years, began to use Fiat’s as basis for their tuning experiments. So, car like this one are much scarcer than the… Read More Not what you think: 1964 Fiat-Giannini 750 TV
The more the time passes, the more the feeling that these early Karmann are the new Porsche 356 grows. Indeed we already saw some perfectly restored specimen for sale at a very high price. No later than three years ago a car in this condition would have been worth no more than $2,000 (tops), today it’s a… Read More How low can you go? 1959 Karmann Ghia Coupè “Lowlight”
Update, same day: This car has gone fast, sometimes the bird must be even earlier… When the Appia came out, many coachbuilders made a lot of style exercises on this platform, the most famous of them were for sure Pininfarina and Vignale: The Pininfarina coupè has for sure a sleeker line than this car which, however, still… Read More Two doors only: 1960 Lancia Appia Coupé By Vignale
Update, june 13: here is the car offered here at the next Artcurial auction with an estimate price of €210,000 – 270,000 (today $284,000 – 365,000). Next time follow our suggestions! July 22, 2013: The first time we saw this car we couldn’t understand why the seller wrote 16v into the description. After a check… Read More Autodelta 16v hardcore: 1966 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT gr.5
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