Early Porsche yesterday, early Porsche today. This is the time of one of the first 912 made which, in this configuration, were also known as “painted dash” because, as the nickname says, the dashboard was not black but painted with the same color of the body. It seems a minor feature but, in the collector… Read More Burbank find: 1966 Porsche 912 “Painted dash”
Indeed. Porsche enthusiasts know well that, aside from the Carrera, this is the most sought after Speedster as only 200 were built in the first producion year, 1954. Zero description by the seller so you will have to settle on what we say about this car: as just written this car belongs to the first 200… Read More Blind red: 1954 Porsche 356 T1 Speedster
“Attention investors/collectors” is the title of this ad, in order to notify them that this is not a cheap classic but almost a blue chip classic car which has been priced fairly. And indeed we must admit that, if this car (chassis #2265223) is as good as it seems, it has been actually put for… Read More Investors warned: 1973 BMW 3.0 CSI
The only car producer of Israel was Autocars Co. Ltd. founded in Haifa and, among other models, they’ve built the Sabra Sport both in Coupé and Roadster version. This particular car, of course a Roadster, is said to heve been brought in the U.S.A. in 1973 and, as long as it has a fiberglass body,… Read More Haifa car: 1963 Autocars Sabra Sport Roadster
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
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