This is really a strange car and perplexes us for several reasons, starting with the bodywork that it is very familiar to us. In fact, as many of you have already suspected, this is a body already seen elsewhere: it was taken integrally from a Ghia 1500 Coupé, built from 1965 to 1967, and adapted… Read More Transformers: 1971 Coachbuilt Renault R177
The seller of this Abarth 750 Spyder, built almost 60 years ago by Allemano, leaves no room for interpretation: the car is plenty of rust. Obviously he’s speaking about the frame as the body (partly sawed in the front) is made of aluminum, and so the rust is not a problem. What is instead a… Read More Plenty of rust: 1959 Abarth 750 Spyder by Allemano
Yep, that’s a replica. But, as all of you know, not all replicas are the same and that’s true also for this Cobra 427 built by Kirkham, a small factory in Provo, UT. There, among the beautiful landascapes of Utah, the Kirkham brothers build the best replica of the Shelby Cobra, both in 289 and… Read More Polish aluminium: 1965 Cobra 427 S/C by Kirkham
After having browsed thousands of ads, we learned a golden rule: the more the car is (or might be) interesting, the less the words used to describe it. This is an example of such rule. The car under examination is indeed an aluminium car which is said to have been crafted but the german coachbuilder… Read More Aluminium body: 1957 Porsche 356/550 by Wendler
This pale blue Fulvia Zagato has been featured on the cover of the italian classic cars bi-monthly magazine “Automobilismo d’Epoca”, and that’s a good start. We didn’t read the article about it (just because we don’t have that magazine issue) so the only things that we know are those told by the seller that are… Read More Magazine cover car: 1969 Lancia Fulvia Sport 1.3S by Zagato
We wrote several times about these special Abarth built on the Fiat 600 chassis with an aluminium body designed and crafted by Allemano but, as long as we like them, we don’t miss a chance to publish one when we find it for sale. This car was delivered new in the U.S.A. and soon it… Read More H Class racer: 1959 Abarth 750 Spider by Allemano
Before the Chevrolet Corvette there was no american sports car but the Nash Healey Le Mans, built thanks to a joint venture between the refigrator maker Kelvinator, and the british automaker Donald Healey. The joint venture with a british company becomes clear when you see that this car has an aluminium body and a big… Read More American aluminium: 1951 Nash Healey LeMans
This not well known car was the very first big car built by AC Ltd., and the extraordinary thing is that it is basically the same as it came ouf of the factory more than sixty years ago. Indeed the conditions of this car really match the “survivor” word definition: thanks also to its aluminium… Read More Extra dry survivor: 1951 AC 2-Litre Saloon 2dr
These Simca 8 and 9 once were basically outsider in the classic cars world, however since few years they have regained their proper place in the market as they were rare, cute and properly built. The design of this cars is Pininfarina stuff but they were actually built by the french Facel Metallon even though… Read More Black aluminium: 1951 Simca 8 Sport Coupé
This Fulvia Sport was built by Zagato one one of the early Fulvia chassis, also known as “Leva lunga”, which is to mention the long shift lever installed on the first series. The first specimens had a body made of Peraluman 25 which is a very light alloy made of aluminium and a little percentage… Read More Peraluman 25: 1967 Lancia Fulvia Sport 1.3 S by Zagato
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