Here is one of the 1091 Giulia Spider Veloce built: this is the rarest version of the Alfa Romeo Spiders in the decade between the mid-50s and mid-60s. This version summarized the best of Alfa’s experience with the spiders, made up to that moment: 1600 cc engine capacity, dedicated cams, two Weber DCOE 2 carburettors,… Read More Oregon red: 1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia Spider Veloce
Salmson is a French company that has been closed for 60 years, however when it was in business it left its mark. In fact, from its foundation in 1922 to before the Second World War, its cars have won more than 500 races, perhaps thanks also to the experience in the manufacture of aircraft: they… Read More Malta knight: 1954 Salmson 2300 S
Before becoming a status symbol, Audi was an almost unknown manufacturer outside of Germany, with an extremely niche market in the rest of Europe. Also because his cars were not cheap: they were still a product made with high quality standards, however they lacked the image and, too often, the captivating aspect: the 100S model… Read More Before fame: 1971 Audi 100S Coupé
The history of Intermeccanica is very varied: from its birth in Italy, to the passage to the American continent there would be a lot to say, but this is not the topic of the article. Of course we can say that it produced beautiful cars and if it did not have the success it deserved… Read More Sunburnt/2: 1968 Intermeccanica Italia Spider
That the large family of classic Volkswagen and Porsche lent themselves well to hot-rodding is now a well-established thing, although not so much with regard to the KG. First of all because the Karmann-Ghia built are, in numerical terms, superior to the more famous Porsche 356 (but nothing compared to the cousin Typ 1 Beetle);… Read More Lo-lights, hi-power: 1957 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Coupé
Didn’t you know that there is also a four-door version of the Fiat 600? Well, now you do. Surely it is not surprising not to know this version, created in very few specimens by Francis Lombardi coachworks: so far we have only seen period photos and advertisings; we suspected that some would have survived but… Read More The variant four: 1959 Fiat 600 Lucciola by Francis Lombardi
The value of classic cars is given, in general, by their desirability therefore, basically, it is based on nothing. We mean that desirability has objective parameters, but these have an enormously lower weight than the subjective and, in general, emotional parameters: and since we have published a BMW E21 here, we remain on the same… Read More Green underdog: 1979 BMW 323i
Sometimes it happens that vintage cars satisfy the sight – even more than modern ones – but someone is missing something. This is something, in most cases, power: in reality we believe that the real problem of classic cars is braking, but ours is obviously a subjective point of view. As for the power instead,… Read More Two hearts: 1960 Alfa Romeo 2000 Spider by Touring
Even in Europe, in the late 1940s, the long wave of cars built with metal and wood arrived, a style dictated mostly by Chrysler and Ford since the early 40’s. Italy in those years had a strong commercial exchange with the United States (its main customer for many goods) and the American continent in general,… Read More Italian woody: 1951 Lancia Aurelia B51 Giardinetta by Viotti
After the Second World War, Europe was in pieces and had started to lick its wounds, yet at the same time there were people who commissioned cars like these. After all, it is not a novelty that rich people are certainly not suffering from the crises, however it is also true that if it were… Read More Post war glory: 1946 Lancia Aprilia Cabriolet by Pininfarina
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