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
“The Porsche that wasn’t” could be defined as the Devin, based on a chassis derived from Porsche or Volkswagen. In this case, it is a car based on a shortened chassis taken from a 1951 Type 1. At that time, and we are talking about the years between the 50s and 60s, there was certainly… Read More Plastic fantastic: 1951 VW-Porsche Devin
The seller of this red Mercedes Benz 190 SL says that it has been a ‘shop barn find’ and, based on the evidence found, it has been parked since 1981. The fact that it has been stationary for so long brings both good and bad news: on one hand, the car hasn’t been exposed to… Read More Shop find: 1958 Mercedes Benz 190 SL
We were familiar with this German coachbuilder, but not this particular vehicle, which we consider beautiful. The artisan in question is Friedrich Rometsch. He was an employee of the famous Berlin coachbuilder Erdmann & Rossi and founded his own coachbuilding business in 1924. Naturally, like the vast majority of coachbuilders, he didn’t have the expertise… Read More German craftsmanship: 1957 Volkswagen Lawrence Coupé by Rometsch
It’s been a while since we last featured this model, but not because we don’t consider it worthy. On the contrary, it’s because there are few of them around, and even fewer in this condition. It’s an OSI 20M TS, built by the Turin-based OSI (which stands for ‘Officine Stampaggi Industriali’), a company that, until… Read More One owner: 1968 OSI 20M TS
Some time ago, we came across a Volkswagen-based buggy for sale, built by Autotecnica Del Lario (ATL), a workshop specialized in prototype construction (many of you may know one in particular, based on the Alfa Romeo 1900). Riding the beach car trend, they also produced metal-bodied buggies starting from 1971. The models offered to the… Read More Reborn: 1979 ATL Explorer 2
We don’t know about you, but we weren’t aware of the existence of this microcar, which was probably created to compete with the Isetta. The basic design is indeed identical: four wheels, a two-stroke engine, and front access are the main features that characterized the Italian microcar and were clearly borrowed from this Zundapp, a… Read More Never seen one: 1957 Zündapp Janus
We were talking, a few posts ago, about the search for originality in collecting, and here we have a Cabriolet popping up in a non-exceptional condition, but certainly original. Speaking of the condition, we notice that the car doesn’t appear to have been restored in appearance. In fact, it seems completely original in every part,… Read More Old slate: 1963 Porsche 356B T6 S Cabriolet
This model was created to allow three-pointed star customers to access a spider that resembled the 300SL, without, however, incurring the astronomical cost of the latter. Not that the 190SL was inexpensive by any means: in 1962, it cost twice as much as an Alfa Romeo Giulia Spider, which, despite having a smaller engine, was… Read More Raw diamond: 1962 Mercedes-Benz 190SL
The current market for classic BMWs significantly rewards the E9 series, which often fetches six-figure prices: it’s undoubtedly a very beautiful car, but it had a mother. The mother, built by Bertone and designed by none other than Giorgetto Giugiaro, is even better equipped under the hood, at least on paper: it’s powered by the… Read More German v8: 1962 BMW 3200 CS by Bertone
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