January 9 It seems that the car has been sold a couple of days after this article. Indeed now the link opens with the other “spare” Multipla for sale by the same owner: this one is unfortunately in desperate conditions. January 5 This is one of those times when the seller doesn’t tell about the… Read More Two tone sleeper: 1959 Fiat 600 Multipla
The new year on Classic Virus starts with a seller submission: it’s a Mercedes-Benz 600 W100 series a.k.a. “Grosser”, which was also the favorite car of most dictators of that period. The seller is also a dealer and he says that he purchased the car little more than three weeks ago from the second owner in… Read More Seller submission: 1970 Mercedes-Benz 600 “Grosser”
December 31, 2015 – 28 months later In the last update of this article I wrote that “the car is almost ready”: indeed that “almost” was heavier than I could ever thought. Actually I’m not surprised at all about the follow up activities of a restoration job, but this is a complex car, more complex than… Read More A restoration tale: 1967 Maserati Ghibli 4.7 Coupé (update #15 – December 31)
This 1750 GTV is said to be a car which has been forgotten in a corner of an Alfa Romeo dealership for the past 40 years: it is said to have been always been stored in an enclosed space but the rust wee see tell us another story. Indeed we know well that these cars… Read More Forgotten: 1969 Alfa Romeo 1750 GT Veloce
This is one of those little cars which were made on demand by some special client who wanted something special without spending a lot of money. back then the market demand was huge for this kind of cars (in relative terms, of course) but the overal numbers were not high at all: the seller says… Read More Compact luxury: 1955 Fiat 600 “Rendez Vous” by Vignale
The seller of this Moretti Sportiva doesn’t say anything about the build year of this car but, as he says it’s an “S” version, we believe it’s a 1967 car. Actually the seller doesn’t say anything about this project but that’s a complete car and that it has all the correct papers: of course this is… Read More Nude look/2: 1967 Moretti 850 Sportiva
As usual for french cars until the early nineties, this french delivered Dino 2000 Coupé has proper yellow headlights: the rest of the car is quite stock, including the not-running engine (which is said to be not stuck). Indeed this seems a very correct old Dino 2000: the seller says that the car has been… Read More Yellow eyes: 1967 Fiat Dino 2000 Coupé
We’ve seen other Abarths 750 Spider for sale in the past years but this (chassis #100478497) is clearly the one in worst conditions ever. That’s because this car has been for sure abandoned to elements and not in an enclosed space: the chassis metal is basically gone and whoever gets this car must be very… Read More Handle with care: 1959 Abarth 750 Spider by Allemano
This Giulia Sprint GT Veloce looks now ready for a full restoration after, as it seems, a long life among rodeos. Indeed this is a car which, although it looks dry, had some modifications to its body in the past like the flared fenders and the front spoiler: it was probably a racer during the… Read More Former racer: 1967 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT Veloce
This is one of the best colors on a Giulietta Spider and, by the way, it’s quite rare as red and white were the most chosen colors back then. The seller says that this car (chassis #AR149500406) had a previous restoration in the eighties but, of course, now it need to be deeply refreshed as… Read More More than 35: 1956 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider
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