It’s been 49 years since Rick McCloskey (aka RickMack), fresh out of photography school at San Fernando Valley State College in Northridge, spent every Wednesday night throughout the summer of 1972 photographing a generation of boys and girls in first half of their twenties, cruising and meeting with their cars – stock, partially modified or… Read More The vanished world
The twentieth century was defined by historian Eric Hobsbawm as “The Short Century”, due to the exceptional concentration of events that occurred between the outbreak of the First World War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was also the century of the automobile and of the whole world that revolved around it: a… Read More The Fisogni Museum
“A place where a classic cars enthusiast is not alone” is the motto of this blog. And indeed, it’s quite a must to suggest to whoever is restoring, or has a restoration project, or simply has the idea of restoring a Giulietta Spider, this blog. The main topic of this blog is the restoration log of a… Read More Classic suggestions/2: Spiderveloce’s Blog
What has been written here is not meant to be some sort of “bible” to follow when you’re going to buy a classic car. I just tried to put down in words and share my experience (read it as: my mistakes) in this strange world which is beautiful but, at the same time, it’s full of traps.… Read More Classic suggestions: A buyer’s guide
“…Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures, the essence of the evolutionary spirit.” Gordon Gekko; Wall Street, 1987 Classic cars nuts (including us) often complain about speculators who buy classic cars with the only goal to make profit on selling them at an higher… Read More Is greed good?
Every classic cars enthusiast knows well that this market is sometimes so strange and lunatic that for somewhat reason, truly great cars remain undervaluated for years. This happened so far for many cars: think at the Fiat Dino Spider which was not worthy $30k till three years ago: now the best specimens fly regularly over… Read More The Alfa Romeo Montreal revenge
One year ago the first post of Classic Virus has been published. Since then, the blog has grown more than we expected: it was born with the intention to share our passion for classic cars and the stories or the legends born around them: we hope that we have reached, at least partially, such goal.… Read More 365 days, 283 posts, 115 countries: one year of Classic Virus
There are things that could nest in your brain like an obsession. My personal car-obsession is where this car is now, if it still exists. I consider it the mother of every post-war racing barchettas, including Ferrari. Actually the Alfa V12 engine, designed by Bruno Trevisan, was the first of the breed which continued with… Read More Mother, where are thou? 1951 Alfa Romeo 412 by Vignale
Between 1955 and 1957, in the period after having leaved Ghia and before joining the just-created Centro Stile Fiat, Felice Mario Boano created his own factory, called Boano Lavorazioni Speciali. In those three years Boano created such unique cars like Ferrari 250 low roof, Abarth 207 A, Lincoln Indianapolis, Boano Nardi Corsair. He created also… Read More Little wonder: 1956 Fiat 1100 Sport TV Boano-Giannini
No other words could describe better this Vignale-Michelotti masterpiece. This was the first street car built by Karl Abarth, after the Cisitalia-Abarth 204. This car followed the decision to build a gran turismo berlinetta for a wealthy clientele: a brand new chassis was built, along with an aluminium coach. The 205-101 had a heavily tuned… Read More State of Art: 1950 Abarth 205-A by Vignale
