What we can’t understand is why many people are so stingy with words when it’s time to describe the car they are selling.Whatever, this car speaks enough for itself. It’s a Simca 1200S by Bertone, a car which is well know by many Classic Virus readers as we have posted many of these cars for… Read More No words: 1970 Simca 1200 S Coupé by Bertone
There is few things remained on this Speedster (chassis #82291) which is, however, a good starting point for a restoration project. As you could easily suppose, the fact that this is a project car doesn’t mean that it will come cheapbut, as long as these cars (one restored) are going for sale often for more… Read More No optionals: 1956 Porsche 356 A Speedster
The Espada is one of the oddest car made by the Lamborghini but we must admit that, to our eyes, the more the time passes, the better it looks. And that’s because this is a car designed in order to evolve the features of the Marzal prototype, which was too extreme to be converted into… Read More Low in four: 1972 Lamborghini Espada
Differently from the Maserati tradition, this car was given the name of a star belonging to the Ursa Major constellation. And, differently from its predecessors, this car had not a tubular chassis but an unibody. Of course if you know the Maserati family it’s clear that this car has been designed to be the smaller sister… Read More Faded star: 1973 Maserati Merak 3000
One of the best cars made in France after the WWII is the Simca Week-End, the cabriolet version of the Coupé de Ville. Both were one segment upper than their cousins, the Aronde series. Also this Simca was built by facel coachworks, this means that there is some aluminium somewhere: in this case we’re talking about… Read More Robergel wheels: 1956 Simca Week-End
“Building find” are the words used by the seller to describe this car, a rare LHD Aston Martin DBS which had for sure a restoration beginning but no much more than that. Indeed the body has been brought to bare matal in order to do a deep restoration job, but clearly something went wrong and then… Read More Best offer gets it: 1969 Aston Martin DBS
When I was young I really loved this car; actually it was the only four doors car that I really liked as it was muscle. I liked also its squared shapes which, however, were pretty harmonized and streamlined, mostly because this is a huge car with a huge engine under the hood: this model was… Read More Manhattan transfer: 1980 Maserati Quattroporte
We know this car, we have even seen it in person and we must admit that it’s a great specimen, even if some details could be improved. According to the Italia 2000 page on Facebook, this should have the Vignale body #8, it’s is indeed a very early specimen which has been restored around eight… Read More Old acquaintance: 1959 Italia 2000 by Vignale
“Impossible to find” are the words used by the seller to describe this car: actually we agree that this is a coachbuilt car hard to find. This is actually the third Rendez Vous we have seen for sale in years: there is still one for sale here and then we know another one in concours… Read More “Impossible” to find: Fiat 600 Rendez Vous by Vignale
To the eye of many this could seem on of the many big american station wagon of the fifties, but in fact this is maybe the rarest of them all. It’s called New Yorker Town and Country and the first thing you see is that this is pushed by a mighty 331 c.i. Hemi V8: this… Read More Steel, vinyl & wood: 1953 Chrysler New Yorker Town and Country
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