This 1100-103 TV is one of the cheapest ways to access the Mille Miglia since many of these cars joined the most famous race in the world from 1953 to 1957. TV is for “Turismo Veloce” ( literally “fast cruising” ), indeed this model, compared to 1100-103 “base”, had a motor with a larger carburetor, a… Read More Vip pass: 1955 Fiat 1100-103 TV
Orlandi built cars? Never heard of it before. So, we did a check on the book “La Sport e i suoi artigiani” which is the most important book eve made about the italian cars, but no trace of this car. And yet, Orlandi was a known coachbuilder specialized in building truck and coaches but we… Read More Unknown: 1955 Fiat 500C Barchetta by Orlandi
We all know that the pre-56 Porsche 356 are becoming untouchable, no matter in what conditions they are, so always more often we see for sale cars that, up to five years ago, we would not have taken even for free. Unfortunately we don’t make rules, market does so here we are comenting wat remains of… Read More Restoration day: 1953 and 1955 Porsche 356 Coupé
Here it is a very rare car. It belongs to the big family of the coachbuilt Fiat 1100-103 build during the fifties, an obscure but very fascinating story. This is called “Gran Turismo” (as the badges on the front fenders say) and it based on a “normal” Fiat 1100-103, so not the TV engine and… Read More Hen’s teeth: 1955 Fiat 1100 Gran Turismo by Viotti
“Scraping the bottom of the barrel” is an old said but it fits to what is happening during the last years: the good finds are almost done and often cars like this jump on the market. We can’t say if that’s a ’54 or ’55 car (for sure it’s not younger or older than that)… Read More Wood find: 1954/55 Porsche 356 Coupé
Brooks Stevens, one of the greatest american industrial designers of the 20th century (he designed cars and bikes, along with kithchen appliances and other architectural items) is the father of this very special Cadillac. This car was built on a 1954 Cadillac sedan chassis and so its proportions are huge: it’s a 22 feet long… Read More Retrospective: 1955 Cadillac Die Valkyrie by Spohn
This car puzzles us. First of all because it’s said to be a 1953 car: in that year the 1100/103 was just released but the first Trasformabile was sold in 1955. Ok the year could be wrong but the strange things aren’t finished yet: the bumpers are the same installed on the later 1200 TV… Read More Original stuff: 195? Fiat 1100/103 TV Trasformabile
From the same seller of the 1900C Pininfarina, here it is another important Coupé belonging to the 1900 series, this time it’s a “common” coupé built by Touring. The special thing abouth this car is that it has the chassis number #1900 (at least as the seller says) but unfortunately it has not its original… Read More Serial #1900: 1955 Alfa Romeo 1900C Sprint by Touring
This super rare 1900C is not a “common” coupé built by Touring but one of the very few cars built by Pininfarina with a special body. Unfortunately the seller says very few about the car but the car had a front crash in the past and that the nose has been repaired by one of the… Read More Face off: 1955 Alfa Romeo 1900C Sprint by Pininfarina
Most of the Fiat Spider type 103 for sale and published (also by us) during the last years belong to the second series, a.k.a 1200 TV, but very few are 1100 TV Trasformabile (spider) like this one. Actually, even though they may look the same, the two series have many differences which, mostly, reside in the… Read More Hot core: 1955 Fiat 1100 TV Trasformabile
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