Taking a car trip like the one described below would make you heroes nowadays. Doing it 70 years ago, alone, without satellite phone, gps, air conditioning, asphalted roads driving a Fiat 1100, seems an almost superhuman feat just for having thought of it. The author of this driving company around the world was Franco Nacci,… Read More 1 Man, 1 Car, 22 Months, 38 Countries, 45,000 Miles: Franco Nacci
We have already written on other occasions how difficult it is to find a nice, early Typ 1 specimen for sale, and we meant a specimen with a closed roof. Finding a cabriolet is extremely unlikely. All the more if we are talking about a specimen – according to the seller – which has never… Read More Clean cab: 1950 Volkswagen Beetle Cabriolet
Actually we did not know exactly how to call this car: we know that – as the seller says – under the skin is the frame and engine of a Henry J. but we don’t know much else. Technically speaking, we do not know the year of manufacture of the chassis, nor the year in… Read More Time traveler: 1950 Kaiser Frazer Henry J. “Custom”
Let’s face it, everyone likes microcars: they arouse sympathy in everyone, no matter what age, gender or social class they belong to. Some people like these cars simply because they are “nice”, others, like us and like many of you, like them because we see the engineering effort to make a “real” car but with… Read More Macro fun: 1950 Kleinschnittger F 125
Today we do not have a car but only a part of it and, moreover, this part is not even complete. It is in fact, from what the seller says is a known Maserati specialist, of an original merger, therefore not reproduced in Argentina or UK, of an A6 engine (which should be a 2000… Read More Bare metal: Maserati A6GCS Engine
It is not unusual to find a Lancia Aurelia, built in the immediate post-war period, which has a special body, and this car is an example. Obviously, “it is not unusual” does not mean that you can find one at every street corner, in particular if the car was commissioned by the Italian driver Giovanni… Read More Pilot’s car: 1950 Lancia Aurelia B50 by Vignale
“Home” stands for Italy, of course, since it is very strange to see a rare Fiat 1100 ES in the United States, as the number of cars produced is really small. We do not believe that this car was sold new in the United States, it probably arrived years later as a used car, in… Read More Far from home: 1950 Fiat 1100 ES Coupé By Pininfarina
Although we have published other Simca 8s in the past, none of them was in the conditions of this convertible that looks like a real time capsule. The seller says that this car has been brought in the US when his service was over very common in those years: That’s not the first time we… Read More Flash inside: Simca 8 Cabriolet by Pininfarina
Yep, the name of ths car is quite long and the car which it belongs to is quite rare: probably the only one in the U.S.A. an one of the very few made at the beginning of the fifties. Finding this car at 6,000 miles from where it was built is indeed odd, given the… Read More Three seater: 1950 Fiat 1500E Cabriolet “Riviera” By Stabilimenti Farina
Yes indeed these cars once were abandoned everywhere, including fields, just like this one that has still its body only because it’s made of aluminium. The car is sold with a bill of sale only and it’s easy to understand why: nobody provides you with a title in a field: jokes apart this is a… Read More Field find: 1950 Simca 8 Sport Convertible
