Owning a rare car also means taking on the burden of working with parts that are difficult to find, as in the case of this Viotti. Actually, from the mechanical point of view, this car does not require a lot of effort since the chassis, engine, brakes, suspension are those of a Fiat 1200, produced… Read More The quest for parts: 1958 Fiat 1200 Granluce by Viotti
It is the second time we see a Fiat Pininfarina like this on sale and, definitely, we are amazed because we thought that after the one published here, we would not have seen another one on sale for many years to come. But there is nothing more beautiful than being amazed (in a positive sense)… Read More Swedish plate: 1958 Fiat 1200 Coupé by Pininfarina
And here, every now and then, another one of these small, elegant coupés comes out, built on a humble but solid base and dressed by a top-tier coachbuilder. The carmaker in question is (or rather, it was) Alfredo Vignale whose career was very eclectic: he built cars for rich industrialists and movie stars but he… Read More Little blue special: 1955 Fiat 600 Rendez Vous by Vignale
We do not take much care of the pre-war cars but not because we do not like them, but they are rare in themselves and the “specials” for sale are extremely rare. But every now and then some of them jump out as in the case of this Lancia Augusta the body of which was… Read More Prewar coachbuilt: 1934 Lancia Augusta Coupé by Ghia
This strange coupé was built, as you can easily imagine, by one person, not in Stuttgart but in a neighboring city, Kaiserslautern. It’s a mix between Porsche, Karmann Ghia and the fantasy of the German craftsman who decided 60 years ago to build his “dream car” based on what evidently inspired him. The body is… Read More Stranger things: 1958 Karmann Ghia – Porsche “Custom”
Balbo was one of those coachbuilders who operated in the shadow of famous brands like Pininfarina, Farina or Vignale, however he built beautiful cars, especially before the WWII. Indeed Balbo shut his doors in 1954 but he still had time to build beautiful post war cars like this “Trasformabile” built on the six-cylinder Fiat 1500… Read More Find another one: 1950 Fiat 1500 6C Trasformabile by Balbo
Ghia-Aigle was a subsidiary of the well known Ghia of Turin, Italy, which opened in Aigle (Switzerland) another shop in 1948. This became indipendent from Ghia in 1953 and then started to build car bodies under its own name. Many of such bodies were built over Alfa Romeo chassis for their wealthy customers, and basically… Read More A special one: 1957 Alfa Romeo 1900 CSS by Ghia-Aigle
Here it is a very rare car. It belongs to the big family of the coachbuilt Fiat 1100-103 build during the fifties, an obscure but very fascinating story. This is called “Gran Turismo” (as the badges on the front fenders say) and it based on a “normal” Fiat 1100-103, so not the TV engine and… Read More Hen’s teeth: 1955 Fiat 1100 Gran Turismo by Viotti
The “standard” Fiat 1600S Coupé is yet a rare car as just 273 were build, this one is a special version built by Fissore coachworks and so here we’re talking of a true rarity. Indeed we don’t know how many of these were built: we have some literature but nowhere there are the production numbers of… Read More Italian japanese: 1963 Fiat 1600S Coupé by Fissore
“Impossible to find” are the words used by the seller to describe this car: actually we agree that this is a coachbuilt car hard to find. This is actually the third Rendez Vous we have seen for sale in years: there is still one for sale here and then we know another one in concours… Read More “Impossible” to find: Fiat 600 Rendez Vous by Vignale
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