The history of Volkswagen during the Second World War and in the years immediately following is complex and has many dark sides or in any case little known if not by the greatest experts of the brand. One of these is the vehicle rebuilding program set up by the US army immediately after the war,… Read More Commander’s bug: 1947 Volkswagen Typ 1
You will have understood that vintage work vehicles are as passionate as cars, so it is not strange to publish another van which is now quite rare. Rare, essentially, for two reasons: the first is the well-known one, namely the fact that 95% of these vehicles were scrapped at the end of their working life… Read More Blue power: 1966 Fiat 1100 T
And here, the same seller who owns the Lancia Artena published a few days ago, sells this rare Alfa Romeo, even more rare as it never seems to have been restored. We have not seen many 6C 2500s built by Pininfarina in similar conditions: the last was perhaps a blue specimen, on sale in Italy… Read More Out of the barn: 1948 Alfa Romeo 6C2500 S Cabriolet by Pininfarina
We may not be the only ones who have never seen a four-seater Jaguar XK150, yet here it is in all its strangeness. It is apparently a creation of Jaguar enthusiast Geoffrey Stevens in the 1975 to 1977 period. He was a Jaguar enthusiast and worked as an industrial chemist near Swindon, he and his… Read More Four seater cat: 1960 Jaguar XK150 Shooting Brake ‘Foxbat’
There are many books on every Lancia model built before the war, and the reason is simple: it is difficult to find even just two cars that are identical in every detail. This happened basically for two reasons: the first is related to the fact that these were cars built mainly to order by wealthy… Read More Exposed bones: 1934 Lancia Artena Series III 228C
The post-World War II European economic and social reconstruction owes a tribute to vehicles like these, used by both large companies and small artisans. In fact, large companies used these minivans mainly for customer assistance or small repairs on networks (in the case of utilities), while craftsmen such as blacksmiths, plumbers and mechanical workshops took… Read More Working class: 1955 Fiat 500C Furgonetta
For collectors and simple enthusiasts of classic cars there are not many things more exciting than cars modified by small, and often unknown, manufacturers, even if they are not even manufacturers in the strict sense, but only enthusiasts who have wanted to build their own visions. In this case, confirming what has just been written,… Read More Stranger things: 1959 Volkswagen Typ 1 one-off
We all know that you can’t have your cake and eat it, so if your craving is for an inexpensive classic spider, there’s work to be done to get there. In this specific case, there is a lot of work to be done: first of all you have to fill in a very long checklist… Read More Southern project: 1960 Triumph TR3 A
These cars, as “basic” as they may look when viewed with today’s eye, were very expensive at the time even when bought in their entry level version. So let’s not talk about how much the 323i version cost, with an in-line six-cylinder engine, which today we could equate to the BMW M3, and we have… Read More Bubbly E21: 1979 BMW 323i by Hartge
It is a classic Ford, it is in original condition and it comes from around Motown: it is almost a string of perfect conditions. Motown, for the uninitiated, is the contraction of the two terms Motor and Town, or rather Detroit, the heart of the American car industry as well as, during the 60s, the… Read More Motown blues: 1949 Ford Custom Club Coupé
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