This car was not built by Fiat but by Ghia which used indeed the Fiat engine, gearbox and suspensions but not the chassis: this one was designed by Gilco, an italian company specialized in building lightweight tubular frames. Less than 1,000 cars like this were made as these were not sold by the official Fiat… Read More Gilco bones: 1964 Fiat 1500 GT Coupé by Ghia
The seller of this Alfa Romeo van calls it “vetrato” (“with glasses”) but that’s actually a Romeo 2° (II) which was the biggest van of Alfa Romeo offer. Before the F12, this was the one available both in two engine options: a diesel twin cylinder fed by a compressor and the gasoline 1300 c.c. well… Read More Glasses all around: 1957 Alfa Romeo “Romeo 2°”
Back at the end of the sixties, there were very few options to ride fast and confrortable in a four seater car: one of those was for sure the Maserati Mexico. Expensive to buy and to maintain (other than to feed), it was powered by the most american of italian engines: a big twin cam… Read More Highway mothership: 1969 Maserati Mexico
Before the Chevrolet Corvette there was no american sports car but the Nash Healey Le Mans, built thanks to a joint venture between the refigrator maker Kelvinator, and the british automaker Donald Healey. The joint venture with a british company becomes clear when you see that this car has an aluminium body and a big… Read More American aluminium: 1951 Nash Healey LeMans
It’s hard to improve the job of a genius like Ferdinand Porsche, even if who wants to improve it is another genius like Giovanni Michelotti. Indeed the result is quite odd but not beautiful. This Porsche 356 T6 coupé, the existence of which was totally unknown by us, was an attempt made by the swiss… Read More Restyling attempt: 1961 Porsche 356 B T6 Coupé by Ghia-Aigle
This model is, in our humble opinion, the best spider built by Alfa Romeo since the 1966 Duetto and we think we’re not alone in believing that even for today standars it still remains beautiful. Of course the problem with Alfa is a cliche: a Spider must be red but, as you can see, it… Read More British Racing Green: 1991 Alfa Romeo Spider 2000
This car has been bought a couple of years ago by its actual seller (whose name is clearly italian) in Italy, shipped to NJ and then repainted: indeed the car was once yellow. The car is set up as a road-race vehicle: it still has its interior even though a roll cage has been installed… Read More Italian hot rod: 1965 Fiat 2300S Coupé
That’s not the very first time we publish an article about a “classic hearse”, but that’s for sure the first time we see one of these cars derived from a Fiat 1400, probably the only one in existence. Italian classic cars aficionados know well the Fiat 1400 which was produced both with metal and soft… Read More Do it in style: 1950 Fiat 1400 Hearse
A Fiat 500 could not seem such an extraordinary editorial choice as there are plenty of them for sale around the world. It’s basically a commodity, unless we’re talking about a very early “Nuova 500” like this one. Indeed this particular car belongs to the first series of cars designed by Dante Giacosa and called… Read More Less is more: 1958 Fiat “Nuova 500”
We agree with the seller of this 356 A Cabrio (chassis #151513) about the fact that while Speedsters and Convertible D are often on the market while that’s not the same for the A Cabrio: this is one of the last made and that’s actually in good shape. That doesnt’ mean that with some tlc… Read More Floors and top: 1959 Porsche 356A T2 Cabrio
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