February 28, 2016 Here it is again on eBay with a huge price drop to $105,000 September 18, 2105 Mr. Rapley never betrays expectations and indeed now has another very special car for sale. That’s a special coachbuilt car made in germany in the early fifties by Hans Fischhaber to compete in the German Championships… Read More Fischhaber’s special: 1953 Lancia Aprilia “Eigenbau”
This Giulietta Spider is said to be a one owner car: nowadays it’s almost impossible to find one of these cars belonged to the first owner and that’s why we’ve decided to publish it. Indeed it’s a Giulietta Spider type 101 which is actually the less wanted car of the whole Giulietta Spider Breed; actually… Read More Teddy Bear included: 1962 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider
That’s not a news seeing a project car without the lights, both on the front and the rear end: it looks like that headlights and taillights are the most cannibalized part of any car abandoned to its destiny. This Appia Coupé by Pininfarina has had such destiny but, apart from the missing lights which are… Read More Blind project: 1958 Lancia Appia Coupé by Pininfarina
This hand-built car has been, almost 60 years ago, the absolute peak of the american automotive production: it featured a lot of gadgets and it was more expensive than its contemporary competitor, the Rolls Royce Silver Cloud. Its price tag was $13,000 (back in 1958 the average yearly wage in the U.S. was $4,600) It… Read More Space age ship: 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham
“Building find” are the words used by the seller to describe this car, a rare LHD Aston Martin DBS which had for sure a restoration beginning but no much more than that. Indeed the body has been brought to bare matal in order to do a deep restoration job, but clearly something went wrong and then… Read More Best offer gets it: 1969 Aston Martin DBS
Yes, one of Bertone’s masterpieces was built by Touring, and that’s easy to understand why. Building a spider is not only about chopping a roof but mostly about making the chassis stronger, especially on cars built fifty years ago, an age when the weren’t computer simulation to calculate forces and torsions rates. So around 1,000 bodies… Read More A restaurer: 1967 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTC by Touring
The seller says that this 250 GTE is for sale for the first time since it was delivered new in the USA to Otto Zipper Motors in Hollywood. Indeed it’s one of the few Ferrari of that period to have a mile-scaled speedometer so that’s coherent with what the seller says. The car has been… Read More First time for sale: 1963 Ferrari 250 GTE
That’s not a news that Hollywood celebrities, with scarce exceptions, often used to reward themselves with an european supercar when they arrived at the top of their popularity: Ava Gardner was one of those. Indeed she chose this HK500 (chassis HK-Z1) in the late fifties. The auctioneer says that this car was delivered new to her,… Read More Ava’s black one: 1959 Facel Vega HK 500
O.T.S. is the original name given by the factory to these cars to indicate an Open Two Seater car. This XK120 has been carried out from somewhere (an enclosed space we suppose) where it was sleeping since many years. Watching those strange wheels with those giant tires we suppose that the last time that this… Read More Balloon shoes: 1954 Jaguar XK120 O.T.S.
It’s rare to find a DB2/4 with the steering wheel on the left side, and this car is one of the few to boast this feature. Indeed most of the Aston of the mid fifties were produced with a right hand drive, not much were made with the LHD as they costed, back then, as… Read More Steering wheel ok: 1955 Aston Martin DB2/4
