It’s not a sacrilege to affirm that people like George Barris, Ed Roth, Darryl Starbird, Dean Jeffries and few other have been for the U.S. car culture what Pininfarina, Bertone, Boano etc. have been for Europe. Of course back in the early fifties U.S.A. and Europe were two different worlds with different needs so the… Read More Tubs’ car: 1951 Lincoln Lido Coupé by Barris
The seller says that this car is often unknown also by classic car experts but we believe that’s difficult because this is one of the prettiest car made during the fifties. That’s a Simca 8 Convertible which had the aluminium body made by Facel Metallon on a chassis pushed by a 1100 c.c. four cylinder… Read More Silver spider: 1951 Simca 8 Convertibile
This 1951 Aurelia B10 is one of the best specimens we’ve ever seen: the seller says that it was never restored and that’s actually hard to believe it. Of course it often happens to find preserved specimens of these V6 sedans built by lancia in the early fifties: back then these were expensive cars and… Read More Four digits plate: 1951 Lancia Aurelia B10
Most people for sure don’t know what car is this: basically that’s the attempt to build a sports car by Earl “Madman” Muntz, an American businessman and engineer who sold and promoted cars and consumer electronics in the United States from the 1930s until his death in 1987. Few of these cars were produced as Muntz realized that he… Read More The Arizona girl: 1951 Muntz Jet
This is not the first hearse based on a Lancia seen so far, but for sure this is the oldest one, as it is based on a Lancia Aurelia B10. Indeed the B10 has been produced from 1950; in 1951 Lancia made two version of the sedan car: one equipped with a 1,774 cc engine… Read More Last classy ride: 1951 Lancia Aurelia B10 hearse
Henney coackworks used, back in the fourties and fifities, to build ambulances and hearses: often the same coach was multi-purpose and the difference between the two option was, basically, color and sirens. This car was an ambulance used by the Fire brigade somewhere in Washington state: it looks like a proper time capsule with all… Read More Success assured: 1951 Packard 200 Fire Dept. Ambulance by Henney
It is said that what isn’t there cannot break, so this with this microcar you’ll not have problems at all. It is one of the cars built during the ’50’s, the golden era of microcars as the whole Europe, just out of the WWII, had few resources and the many thought that these little cars… Read More Minor than mini: 1951 Mochet GM-125 De Luxe
This coachbuilt Fiat 1100 with an aluminium body by Vignale has seen better days: indeed it is now waiting for someone who take care of it. It is a total restoration project which has been somehow begun but we must say that we don’t like that floors at all: the seems like two simple metal sheet… Read More Aluminium legacy: 1951 Fiat 1100 By Vignale
This car could be the italian equivalent to the ’50-’51 Ford Custom Convertible, also known as “shoebox”. This car was built by Fiat Carrozzerie Speciali, a Fiat division which was involved in building bodies for limited production cars like this one like, later, the 1100 TV Trasformabile. No many of these cars have been built… Read More Italian Shoebox: 1951 Fiat 1400 Convertibile
There are things that could nest in your brain like an obsession. My personal car-obsession is where this car is now, if it still exists. I consider it the mother of every post-war racing barchettas, including Ferrari. Actually the Alfa V12 engine, designed by Bruno Trevisan, was the first of the breed which continued with… Read More Mother, where are thou? 1951 Alfa Romeo 412 by Vignale
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