To be cool, a car doesn’t have to be expensive: that was as true then as it is now. Even the coachbuilders knew it sixty years ago, indeed, they had made a great effort to give a touch of originality and style to cars destined for the mass market, precisely because it was in this… Read More Small car, big style: 1957 Fiat 600 “Smart” by Bertone
Pininfarina is certainly the best known Italian coachbuilder in the world, and certainly not without merit, but in our opinion Bertone was the one who “dared” most of all. By “daring” we mean that Bertone has always been the one who designed the bodywork with that extra inspiration that you would not expect, with solutions… Read More The french italian: 1968 Simca 1200S Coupé by Bertone
Enthusiasts like us know very well what it feels like to see a very rare car locked up in a dark and messy garage: in our opinion, you never get used to it. And the strange thing is that to feel that feeling you don’t even need to be on the spot in person, a… Read More The baby blue one: 1949 Fiat 1100 “Derby” by Bertone
In our opinion, there should be a specific branch of classic car collecting dedicated to custom-built cars built on a Fiat basis. But we are biased. This is a very rare – and we do not exaggerate much stating that it could be the only one in existence – “St. Leger” built by Bertone in… Read More Blue on blue / 3: 1950 Fiat 1400 St. Leger Cabriolet by Bertone
This car is as small as the charisma it emanates is big: you don’t need to be a supercar to turn heads. The merit is a very accurate design and studied in every detail: customers who, more than 50 years ago, bought cars like these wanted to feel driving a high-level car while spending acceptable… Read More Big charisma: 1969 Fiat 850 Sport Racer Berlinetta by Bertone
Ok, Ok, before anyone corrects us, we know very well that the Vespa 400 is only half Italian, however even the title of an article has its importance so for this time we’ll turn a blind eye. What we have here is a batch of three cars, two apparently in good condition and one (the… Read More The italian bunch: Alfa Romeo 2600 Sprint, Fiat 850 Spider, ACMA Vespa 400
If you want to buy a Giulia Sprint GT at the price of a GT Junior, here is the car for you. In fact, we understand well that, in the eyes of a layman, or at least in the eyes of those who know these cars only superficially, it is very easy to confuse a… Read More Grown up Junior: 1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT
Yes, the displacement of this Sprint is very unusual as this particular model was only produced between 1960 and 1961 in about 700 units and is therefore very rare, much more than its sister with a displacement of 2600cc produced in a number ten times greater. We can in fact imagine how many of these… Read More Unusual displacement: 1961 Alfa Romeo 2000 Sprint
If you were expecting a car today then well, we’re sorry to disappoint you. In fact, we are talking about something much more important than a single car, however important it may be. We are talking about the other half of the Carrozzeria Bertone assets: the first half was made up of its prototypes and… Read More Paper treasure: The Bertone files
It is almost paradoxical that, in the year in which bats are at the lowest of their popularity, a lot of noise is generated by the sale of three very famous Alfa Romeos (but not as famous as you might imagine) called BAT, an acronym in Italian for “Berlina Aerodinamica Tecnica” (Technical Aerodynamic Sedan). Long… Read More Legendary triptych: Alfa Romeo B.A.T. 5, 7, 9d to auction
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