This Porsche 924 Turbo sits right in the late-1970s/early-1980s moment when turbocharging became the new promise: a road-car technology with a motorsport halo, adopted across Europe with real enthusiasm. In Porsche terms, the 924 Turbo (internal type 931) was the factory answer to anyone who wanted more than the normally aspirated 924—same front-engine/transaxle layout for… Read More Two-tone paint: 1979 Porsche 924 Turbo
A rare opportunity to examine a 1979 Lancia Beta HPE 2000 in what appears to be excellent, original condition. Based on the information provided by the seller, the car has just over 62,000 miles and retains all its factory components, including the paint, chrome trim, glass, interior, and drivetrain. The 2.0-liter inline-four engine is described… Read More Rare sight: 1979 Lancia Beta HPE 2000
The current owner of this beautiful 1969 Alfa Romeo GT 1300 Junior, imported from Italy in 2014, purchased the car in 2022 through a Bring A Trailer auction. Since then, the car has received several upgrades, including the installation of a rebuilt 1,750cc twin-cam inline-four engine by Ingram Enterprises. The engine features CP-Carrillo connecting rods,… Read More Green flag: 1969 Alfa Romeo GT Junior
In the second half of the 1970s, the term ‘SUV’ was still far from being coined, but 4×4 vehicles were starting to shake off the idea of being purely utilitarian, embracing the concept of a vehicle suitable for all uses and capable of offering comfort similar to that of sedans. In this context, a very… Read More Pre-SUV: 1979 Monteverdi Safari
Some time ago, we came across a Volkswagen-based buggy for sale, built by Autotecnica Del Lario (ATL), a workshop specialized in prototype construction (many of you may know one in particular, based on the Alfa Romeo 1900). Riding the beach car trend, they also produced metal-bodied buggies starting from 1971. The models offered to the… Read More Reborn: 1979 ATL Explorer 2
These cars, as “basic” as they may look when viewed with today’s eye, were very expensive at the time even when bought in their entry level version. So let’s not talk about how much the 323i version cost, with an in-line six-cylinder engine, which today we could equate to the BMW M3, and we have… Read More Bubbly E21: 1979 BMW 323i by Hartge
The value of classic cars is given, in general, by their desirability therefore, basically, it is based on nothing. We mean that desirability has objective parameters, but these have an enormously lower weight than the subjective and, in general, emotional parameters: and since we have published a BMW E21 here, we remain on the same… Read More Green underdog: 1979 BMW 323i
This Alpina B7 Turbo started its life as a common BMW 630 CSi – factory code E24 – then was given by Alpina a complete treatment, involving both the engine and the exterior. Back then these were extremely expensive cars and indeed, only 153 of these were built between late 1978 and early 1982. It… Read More Unusual bimmer: 1979 Alpina B7 Turbo
We are not into modding, especially on classic italian cars which, in the vast majority of cases, don’t need any modern touch at all, but this time we’ll make an exception. That’s because we find that this car has been modified keeping clearly in mind which are the limits of good taste, limits which, in our… Read More Modded: 1979 Fiat 124 Spider 2.0
We’ve seen that many are looking for that “special” Alfa so here it is: It’s an Alfa, it’s rare and you can even use it for your job. It’s one of the very last generation of the van built by Alfa, the F12 which means that it’s caable to carry a weight up to 1,200… Read More Work with style: 1979 Alfa Romeo F12
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