When Piero Dusio, the founder of Cisitalia, realized that profits were very slim, if not nonexistent, with the 202, he tried to leverage the Fiat platform to bring cost savings to production. However, even this did not work. In the post-war car market, the demand for luxury cars was very limited and already covered by… Read More History repeating: 1951 Cisitalia 303 DF
How was the long weekend? Did you digest it well? We hope so, and for the return to normality, here’s a definitely not ordinary car. It’s indeed a Volkswagen Type 1 (if we want to write in a formal way, but let’s just say it’s a Beetle) built on commission for the West German police… Read More Handcuffed: 1952 Volkswagen Type 1 Police Car by Papler
It’s not easy in our days to find a 356A Cabriolet for restoration that isn’t a mass of rust and still has its original engine, yet here is one. Moreover, this car was born in Aquamarine Metallic, a rather rare color, although it’s evident that over the years, it has undergone several layers of paint,… Read More Paint it blue: 1956 Porsche 356A Cabriolet
What to do if you want a Porsche but it’s the 1950s, and you live in East Germany? It’s simple: you build one. This is the synopsis of the story of this car, built from scratch by Hans Miersch, a man whose dream was to own a Porsche 356 since the first moment he saw… Read More Labor of love: 1954 Miersch – Porsche 356 Coupé by Lindner
The base of this car is the Fiat 118 series (the one used for the 1500 and 1600 coupés, to be precise), but the bodywork is substantially different. As mentioned earlier, for this special spider, the chassis and engine of the 118 series were used, equipped with the twin-camshaft engine produced by Fiat but designed… Read More White scorpion: 1959 Abarth 1600 Spider by Allemano
This is a very rare car, yet we saw a similar one in person a few years ago and were fascinated by it. Firstly, the name: Cisitalia is a prestigious name in the world of classic cars, but this car is not part of those first models built entirely in the factory founded by Piero… Read More Little but special: 1954 Cisitalia 33DF Voloradente
This car is very rare, and we can imagine the surprise of the current owner when he found it abandoned in the corner of a warehouse in Italy. It’s one of the very few “Sabrina” models, built on a Fiat 600 Multipla base by Carrozzeria Fissore, one of the great Turin coachbuilders of the 1950s… Read More Rare find: 1963 Fiat 600 “Sabrina” by Fissore
The sleek lines of this Fiat Barchetta are very appealing but at the same time left us a bit puzzled: it seemed strange that the body was made in 1956, and indeed, that’s not the case. The seller mentions that this was initially a Barchetta built in 1956 on a Fiat 1100 base, but then… Read More Green team: 1956 Fiat 1100 Barchetta by Autotecnica del Lario
Perhaps not many people know that BMW cars were branded as EMW for about four years, starting from the end of the Second World War. This was because the automobile factory in Eisenach, a city in Thuringia (not Bavaria), housed the Bavarian brand’s car manufacturing facility, which was restarted by the Soviet government. EMW was… Read More Boomer: 1950 BMW/EMW 340-0
Have you ever seen this car before? We hadn’t, we were not aware of its existence, and we thank our reader Kyle for giving us this tip. Donald Healey, whose surname you surely know, used a tuned version of Riley’s twin-cam 2 1/2-litre four-cylinder engine in a light steel box-section chassis of Healey’s own design,… Read More Undercover Riley: 1949 Healey Sportsmobile
