Many of these Cisitalias can be found in Argentina where Carlo Dusio, son of Piero, founder of the firm, kept on building cars following his passion. And lile most of the cars built by the famous factory were based on Fiat chassis, mostly smaller than 1000 cc in order to provide customers with coachbuilt cars, faster than… Read More A little one: 1961 Cisitalia 750 GT “racer”
This car is said to have been a witness of many battles fought around the tracks all over Europe during the fist half of the sixties. That’s because this 3500 GT, born a s a fuel injected car, was bought by the Serenissima team, owned by count Volpi di Misurata who was a well known… Read More Team car: 1961 Maserati 3500 GT by Touring
The seller of this 190 SL has spent few words to describe the car but maybe we understand why: there’s no much to talk about this car. And that’s why this 190 SL is nothing more and nothing less of a barn find: it has probably been washed with steam or hi-pressure water but it… Read More Unrestored and matching numbers: 1961 Mercedes-Benz 190 SL
This ’61 Falcon Station wagon two-door is said to be a rare car and, indeed, after some internet searches we’ve found very few specimens for sale around. The seller says that this car has been completely restored after having been parked for years (since the late ’70, according to the family which sold the car… Read More Rare bird: 1961 Falcon V8 2dr Wagon
The first thing that has caught our attention about this car is the beautiful pale blue mated to the striking red leather interiors. Then we realized that this coupé has the OSCA engine too. That’s not the most powerful Fiat OSCA made (like the 1600S 118B): this engine is 100 c.c. smaller and it is fed… Read More Blue meets red: 1961 Fiat 1500 OSCA Coupé by Pininfarina
During the 1961 and 1962 a small batch of these “strange” Porsches were built by Karmann (who wasn’t at the time the official Porsche coachbuilder: Reutter was) basically welding an hardtop on the body of a Cabrio. We don’t know why they decided to make such experiment: maybe they wanted to check the response of… Read More Almost Cabrio: 1961 Porsche 356B T5 Hardtop by Karmann
Sometimes it happens to spot an Italia 2000 for sale and so here it is another one: this one is painted in “Bianco Pergamena” (parchment white) and it seems in good conditions. Indeed the first things that we use to check when we see an Italia 2000 for sale are the interiors trims which are the most difficult… Read More Top zustand: 1961 Italia 2000 by Vignale
The Renault 4CV is not much known in the classic car world, especially on the western side of the Atlantic, however we believe that’s a cute little car indeed, not less than many italian alternatives of that period. Indeed it was quite a smart car: a quite short body, four doors, rear water-cooled engine and… Read More Winter sales: 1961 Renault 4CV Affaire
Here it is a car we know well: not this one in particular but, not to be presumptuous, we basically know everything about the Italia 2000. This one is now for sale but we have already seen it for sale; not on this website but on an italian one. It is a red Italia 2000 which… Read More A red one: 1961 Italia 2000 by Vignale
September 25 And here it is on eBay… August 19 Sometimes it happens to find cars which, after the beginning of a restoration job, are offered for sale disassembled while they still need a huge amount of work to shine again, but this case is quite particular. Indeed it is a 3500 GT, a valuable… Read More The assembling game: 1961 Maserati 3500 GT Coupé by Touring
