Rare and unique are the words that best define this 1949 Fiat 1500D Convertible, styled and bodied by the prestigious Stabilimenti Farina. This is not just any early postwar Fiat: it is the six-cylinder Fiat 1500, the refined evolution of the prewar 1500 “6C,” one of the most advanced Italian family cars of the late… Read More Maroon six / 2: 1949 Fiat 1500 Cabriolet by Farina
Once again, we come across a (probably) unique example and—what a coincidence—this too was built by Stabilimenti Farina on a Fiat 1100B chassis, with aluminum bodywork. We don’t know the history of this particular car, but we can make a guess: many years ago it was damaged, perhaps in a rear-end collision (or by hitting… Read More Tough life: 1949 Fiat 1100B Coupé by Farina
Have you ever seen this car before? We hadn’t, we were not aware of its existence, and we thank our reader Kyle for giving us this tip. Donald Healey, whose surname you surely know, used a tuned version of Riley’s twin-cam 2 1/2-litre four-cylinder engine in a light steel box-section chassis of Healey’s own design,… Read More Undercover Riley: 1949 Healey Sportsmobile
In fact, describing this car as “Rare” is somewhat understating it, as it appears to be a unique specimen. Actually, technically speaking, all these cars were “unique specimens” because they were vehicles produced exclusively on commission and with very specific requirements from the clients. Therefore, even for minor details, there were no two cars that… Read More More than rare: 1949 Fiat 1100B Cabriolet by Farina
This car angered Enzo Ferrari. Certainly not because he thought that he could compete with his cars, but on the contrary, because he was too similar to the latter. In particular, it was too similar to the Ferrari 166 Inter Cabriolet, whose bodywork was made just by Farina. In reality this was quite normal as… Read More Almost Ferrari: 1949 Fiat 1100B Cabriolet by Farina
Enthusiasts like us know very well what it feels like to see a very rare car locked up in a dark and messy garage: in our opinion, you never get used to it. And the strange thing is that to feel that feeling you don’t even need to be on the spot in person, a… Read More The baby blue one: 1949 Fiat 1100 “Derby” by Bertone
It’s nice to see cars like this coming up for sale: until a few years ago there were so many but now it seems that they have almost disappeared from the market. We are clearly talking about very special models produced in very few specimens for which we have survived a few, very few. As… Read More Rare bird: 1949 Fiat 1100B Cabriolet by Farina
This special Fiat has been under our radar for a long time, certainly since it was on sale in Italy six or seven years ago: it is rare and it is very beautiful. It is also very similar to the Ferrari 166 cabriolet built by Farina coachworks in the same year, so much so that… Read More Winemaker’s car: 1949 Fiat 1100 B Convertibile by Farina
It is a classic Ford, it is in original condition and it comes from around Motown: it is almost a string of perfect conditions. Motown, for the uninitiated, is the contraction of the two terms Motor and Town, or rather Detroit, the heart of the American car industry as well as, during the 60s, the… Read More Motown blues: 1949 Ford Custom Club Coupé
A Fiat 1100B Cabriolet is a rare car even in Italy, let alone in the USA, especially if it has never been restored and still has its original black plate. If we were to imagine when this car ended up in California, we could think of the 70s when a large number of Italian cars… Read More From VI to L.A: 1949 Fiat 1100B Cabriolet
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