After the Second World War, Italy had to get back on its feet, and this necessarily involved the development of individual mobility. However, money was scarce, and it was necessary to find the most economical way to get people moving. Indeed, from the late 1940s and early 1950s in Italy, an interesting offering of Microcars… Read More Smaller than you think: 1946 Volugrafo Bimbo 46
It is not the first time that this seller has offered Alfa Romeo of the immediate pre or post war period, and it amazes us how he manages to find them. But, curiosity aside, we are always pleased to see these cars emerge from a decades-long oblivion, even if in a miserable state like this… Read More Endoskeleton: 1946 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500S
After the Second World War, Europe was in pieces and had started to lick its wounds, yet at the same time there were people who commissioned cars like these. After all, it is not a novelty that rich people are certainly not suffering from the crises, however it is also true that if it were… Read More Post war glory: 1946 Lancia Aprilia Cabriolet by Pininfarina
The seller of this car say that it was built by a known coachbuilder and that he has some kind of certificate by the builder himself about the originality of this car: we would so much know who is it. What is quite sure s that the body is made of aluminium over a Fiat 508C… Read More Sleeping etceterini: 1946 Fiat “barchetta”
This car was once one of the favorite cabriolet of aristocrats, industrialists and Hollywood stars. Many years have passed since then and time has been hard on this particular car. This car needs actually a lot of things: first, the odd Corvette dashboard must go because it’s a kind of insult to the class of this… Read More Full steel: 1946 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Cabriolet by Pininfarina
If you study the italian cars production between the 30’s and the ’60’s you’ll soon realize that the coachbuit cars production based on Fiat chassis is almost endless. This car is called 508 CS Berlinetta Mille Miglia and it looks like it has an aluminium body put on a Fiat 508 chassis. The seller says that… Read More Racing oddball: 1946 Fiat 508 CS Berlinetta Mille Miglia
According to the seller, this car is based on the chassis (#22.9) and mechanicals of a 1946 Cisitalia-Abarth (204?) which crashed in Argentina and then rebuilt by Ugo Galicio coachworks in mid fifities until 1957 upon the commission of Renato Ciofi. As most Cisitalia had the right hand drive, the seller specify that the lhd… Read More The strange one: 1946 Cisitalia…something
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