The “Trasformabile” (the italian word uesd to say “cabriolet” back in the fifties) was one of the two version of the Siata Daina, a beautiful, scaled down Aurelia B20 produced from the 1950 to 1953 by Siata and designed and assembled by Farina coachworks. In the early fifities Italy was still recovering by the wounds… Read More Prototype, maybe: 1950 Siata Daina Trasformabile
For the uninitiated, “Amica” means a female friend in italian language: this is not human but at little cabriolet built in around 300 specimens from SIATA, soon after the WWII. This car (chassis #2) is of course a project but the good is, as the seller says, that the 600 c.c., inline-four engine, fed by a… Read More Needy friend: 1950 Siata Amica 50 Cabriolet
It’s rare indeed to spot a Mercury coupé which still is the same car of 60 years ago when it left the Mercury factory. Indeed George Barris (probably the most famous customiser all over the world) changed the game when he first unvealed his chopped Mercury more than sixty years ago, the problem is that… Read More Please don’t chop: 1950 Mercury Coupé
We know well that many pepole can’t stand bugs, even if they have a VW badge: however, especially the first series, have that Porsche allure which we love. This is a 1950 bug which still has the purity and the elegange of the early series: we found only once a pre-’50s car but they’re extremely… Read More Dark like a bug: 1950 Volkswagen Beetle
Veritas was an automobile company founded by Ernst Loof, Georg Meier and Lorenz Dietrich who initially re-built and tuned pre-war BMW 328 cars using components supplied by a customer, turning them into BMW-Veritas cars: basically every Veritas until 1950 was based on BMW chassis and engine. The coachwork was then committed to Hermann Spohn, an… Read More Monkfish face: 1950 Veritas Saturn-Scorpion by Spohn
Indeed, the seller says that this special Aurelia built 63 years ago by Stabilimenti Farina (“Pinin” Farina’s brother) is the only one in the US. Other three coupé and one convertible cars like this are known to exsist. This car has an aluminium body with the exception of the doors and outer rockers: that’s good… Read More One in the hemisphere: 1951 Lancia Aurelia B50 Coupé by Farina
There are many bugs for sale, there are less pre-55 cars, and there are few, very few bug like this one around. Actually this car is speculated to be a former service car of the Baden-Baden (Germany) fire department: there is the particular paint and some equipment, like the horn set, which testifies the origin… Read More Feuerwehrleute von Baden-Baden: 1950 Volkswagen Beetle
You see customised Mercuries everywhere but few, very few of them are properly done like this one. Basically we love these custom cars but we hate seeing many of them done with replaced interiors, modern dashboards, engines, and many “wrong” details. This one is exactly how we would do it. We mostly love classic european… Read More How it should be: 1950 Mercury 2dr Coupé
Hard to believe but this is actually not an Alfa: the body by Pininfarina came from a Alfa Romeo 2500 Berlina but the seller says that, as the photos show, this body fits perfectly on the Jaguar frame. The seller says indeed that during 1949 & 1950 Jaguar experimented with a number of body designs… Read More The not-Alfa: 1950 Jaguar MK-VII by Pininfarina
This Alfa Romeo recreation is based on a 1950 6C 2500 engine and chassis, plus other period components. In our opinion this car should be a tribute to her famous relative, the 1938 8C 2900 Mille Miglia by Touring coachworks, although the front grille looks like the one installed on the 2300 Pescara. The seller… Read More Silver screens: 1950 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 recreation
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