The title teases the soundtrack of Rocky III a little (a film that I really liked when I saw it at the cinema as a child), but it also concerns the number of headlights of this rare 1000 OT. In fact, there are few cars like this one, both because few have been sold since… Read More Eyes of the spider: 1970 Abarth 1000 OT
Exactly, you don’t need to have the eye of a great designer to under stand that this car was inspired by the Ford Thunderbird, which came out of production just in the years when DKW started producing this car. The similarities are in fact impressive and yet, despite the obvious American inspiration, we have… Read More Euro T-Bird: 1962 Auto Union 1000 SP
The ASA 1000 GT needs no presentation for all the classic cars enthusiasts: known as the “Ferrarina” (little Ferrari), it has always considered as a little masterpiece. Indeed who started this venture was sure that a little car with high performances could fill a market gap back in 1965 and he was even right: unfortunately… Read More Little red Ferrari: 1965 ASA 1000 GT
“Bialbero” means twin cam: it is the top feature for a classic Abarth engine. They made it this way with three displacements: 750, 1,000, 1,300 and 2,000 cc. These engines are very rare to fine alone: they generally belong to cars which have been destroyed or they were removed from their native cars as they… Read More Twin headed monster: Abarth 1000 “Bialbero” engine
We don’t know the exact build year of this prototype, nor on what car it is based. We don’t know who built it too but whoever did it was not a design master for sure. The only thing for sure is that this car is rear-engined so it could be based on a Simca 1000… Read More Miss ugly: 1975 Simca Civic
This for wheels egg is said to be the ex demonstrator and brochure car back in 1962, of course back then it was in much better conditions than now. The good is that these cars are based on the Mini platform: a lot of spare parts are available on the market however, as the seller… Read More Easter egg: 1962 Ogle SX 1000
This barchetta is said to have been built on a DKW in 1953, but the seller doesn’t specify on what model nor who built it. As a 1953 car, it should be based on a DKW 3=6, but in the meantime he says that the engine is a 1000 c.c. unit instead of 900 c.c.… Read More Iron-side: 1953 DKW Barchetta
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