Update, same day: Alex, a faithful reader, italian classic car connoisseur and collector, has found a period photo of the 1949 edition of the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este where there can be seen a car similar, very similar to this one. The caption says that the car is made by Colli and that’s painted in… Read More Huge price-weight ratio: 1938 Fiat 500A barchetta by Colli
It can happen to stumble upon on a very expensive, and very rare, original Abarth engine but it’s extremely rare to find a Nardi engine like this one for sale. As you know, the power of every engine resides in the head, so many of the period tuning kit consisted in head, carburetors and a… Read More The tuning experience: Fiat 600 “Nardi” engine
This is “just” a type 101 Giulia Sprint, but it has been put down in a very pleasant way: the only thing that it needs is to be driven, nothing else. It was sold new in Milano in March 1960 and there it stayed until someone bring it to UK: there it has been overhauled… Read More Just drive: 1960 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint
Actually we don’t know if this car is from 1962: for sure its birth year, if not 62, is very close as these cars were made from 57 to 63 but they had the “big” taillights only from 1959, when they began to be built by Viotti. Moreover, we believe to have spotted the number three… Read More Missing engine: 1962 Lancia Appia Coupé by Pininfarina
The car posted here is a rare bird, unfortunately, like many CL ads, there is one only photo to discuss about: the one above. At least we can publish a photo (of a coupé) where you can have an idea of what this car could be once restored. It’s a very pretty little car with a… Read More Rough but rare: 1957 Moretti 750 Tour Du Monde
We can’t find anything so wrong with this car, at least from what we can see from the photos, but the point is: who goes east to inspect the car? It’s a 1959 Giulia Spider which, as it can be seen, has wrong wheels but that’s not a problem: the car looks like a Giulia (1600 cc.) and… Read More Long way east: 1959 Alfa Romeo Giulia Spider Veloce
Well, sometimes “cheap” is a relative term: for sure a Ferrari 250 GTO for sale at $20M is cheap, but unaffordable for the 99.99% of the world population. For this car, things are a bit different. The seller specifies, using some bold letters, that the car is not for sale as a “car” but as… Read More How cheap is cheap? 1975 Lancia Fulvia Coupé 1.3S
This is a very rare car not only because it’s a Fiat 500A van (some sources say that less then 50 Giardiniera still survive, and much less van) but because it was bought and used by Campari (the famous italian alcholic beverages brand) to deliver their product. Indeed the car is still painted in the dark Campari… Read More Don’t drink and drive: 1940 Fiat 500A Furgoncino “Campari”
Update, September 23: As the reader Shel says, this car (chassis B20-2254) should be one of the six semi – official Lancia’s, painted in blue/ivory, which joined the Mille Miglia in 1953. If so, the original italian plate of this car was TO143916 with the engine #2503. Such engine was the experimental 2500 cc. version,… Read More Unfulfilled dream: 1953 Lancia Aurelia B20
Many Maserati in the last period, among which there are several restoration project like this one. The seller says that this (chassis #101.2064) is an incomplete car as there is the “meat” but not the side dish: you basically buy a chassis, wheels, body engine and transmission and nothing else: it is for sure a… Read More Mello Yello: 1959 Maserati 3500 GT by Touring
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