Seeing a car – that I used to see along the streets when I was young – slowly becoming a classic, makes me somehow unconfortable but I presume that I can’t do anything to stop all of this so here it is: a very quick hatchback from the early eighties. The most powerful car after the… Read More 7.5 seconds: 1981 Renault 5 Alpine Turbo
These special Simca dressed by Bertone have been apreciated a lot during the last years so they’re not so easy now to find at an affordable price, however there is still something around. This car (chassis #J92522F) was probably born red, differently from many others which were usualy painted in more “elegant” colors: the seller doesn’t… Read More Black bumpers: 1968 Simca 1200S Coupé by Bertone
Here it is another Simca from the golden period of these cars: it’s a rare Simca 9 Coupé which has been partially restored. The job has been done on the body only even though the seller says that it has to be put together again: actually the car looks complete but all the interior parts,… Read More Two tone puzzle: 1954 Simca 9 by Facel
Another survivor here: this is not Maserati but a “humble” Alpine 310 which, on the other side, looks in even better condition than the Mistral. The Alpine 310 built in 1974 (344 cars built that year) was equipped with a four cylinders Gordini engine with a displacement of 1605 c.c., fed by a fuel injection and… Read More 30 years stored: 1974 Alpine A310
We have never hidden our passion for the Simca 8, and that’s still true even for this particular car which has some special features. Indeed this is not a common Simca equipped with the inline-four, 1100 c.c. engine derived from the contemporary Fiat unit, but a V8-60 flathead Ford engine installed in 1960 with Eddie Meyer… Read More A mighty one: 1950 Simca 8 Sport Convertible
Still in France today to check a couple of interesting cars, one of which will be sacrificed to let the other one live for many years ahead. That’s about a couple of Simca 1200S designed by Bertone, one of the cars we like most because it’s tiny, has a cute shape and also a spicy engine… Read More Two for one: 1969 Simca 1200s by Bertone
This rare find is a Citroen M35 (chassis #449), one of the very few survived during the last 40 years. It was based on the chassis of the Ami8 but it is different in many ways. First of all the body, which has a lower roof, a fastback tail and two doors only, the body… Read More Wankel attempt: 1971 Citroen M35 by Heuliez
All new. All easy. All free. Classic Virus List: classicviruslist.com is our new trick, the result of dozens of working weekends and hundreds of overtime work hours (after our “regular” work and the enrichment of this blog) of one girl and two guys during this 2016. What we have done is trying to summarize our… Read More Introducing Classic Virus List
The french builder Salmson had quite a long history started in 1890, having its best years between the first and the second world wars, unfortunately they were not able to face the new challenges of modern era and so they were definitely out of business in 1957. The car shown here is said to be… Read More The last one: 1956 Salmson 2300 GT by Motto
We really believe that no other blog ever has seen so many Peugeot 403 published like this. However, we really thing that this car is beautiful and it’s always worth some rows, at least to remember that another car like this was co-starring in the Lieutenant Columbo tv series. The 403 Cabriolet, which body has… Read More Blue patina: 1960 Peugeot 403 Cabriolet by Pininfarina
