“I’m a different person, yeah, turn my world around…” (Lola’s Theme, The Shapeshifters) This Giulia SS has changed a lot outside. We don’t know by the hand of who and when, fact is that the body has been completely rebuilt taking inspiration, clearly, from the TZ and some element from the Superflow, especially for the… Read More Mutation/3: 1963 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint Speciale
Italian cars enthusiasts know well that the coachbuilt cars built on the Fiat 1100-103 are countless, and often some are almost unknown but sometimes they pops out, just like this one built by Allemano. It is neither a news to find this one for sale in Netherlands were classic cars enthusiast are many, and many… Read More Forgotten coachbuilt: 1955 Fiat 1100 TV Trasformabile by Allemano
Brooks Stevens, one of the greatest american industrial designers of the 20th century (he designed cars and bikes, along with kithchen appliances and other architectural items) is the father of this very special Cadillac. This car was built on a 1954 Cadillac sedan chassis and so its proportions are huge: it’s a 22 feet long… Read More Retrospective: 1955 Cadillac Die Valkyrie by Spohn
Coachbuilders like Vignale were not only involved in building supercars for rich people but also in giving a different shape to mass produced car like the Fiat 600. That’s because they too needed to make some quick cash and building a new body for a Ferrari or some other expensive car was not everyday stuff.… Read More Aquamarine special: 1963 Fiat 600 Cabriolet by Vignale
We’ve already published this car in our previous article about Classic Virus List, but we believe that this car went a little bit unnoticed, and that would be a waste.This is a car in need of a total restoration and unfortunately there is only one photo posted by the seller, but we believe that this… Read More Coachbuilt rarity: Fiat 1200 Coupé by Pininfarina
Just like the Sportinia published here, also this special Fiat Coupé (this time built by Vignale), was born painted in a golden shade, actually often used in the seventies but not much in the previous decade. This particular model, said to be built in 60 units of which only 15 are known to survive nowadays, has… Read More Rising gold/2: 1965 Fiat 1300S by Vignale
As it often happens because of our ignorance, we didn’t know that a small batch of Alfa 1900 Berlina like this one were assembled in Belgium by Imperia coachworks, like this one is said to be. We didn’t find much about this shop but at least we know hat it still exists in Liege, Belgium,… Read More Made in Belgium: 1953 Alfa Romeo 1900
All new. All easy. All free. Classic Virus List: classicviruslist.com is our new trick, the result of dozens of working weekends and hundreds of overtime work hours (after our “regular” work and the enrichment of this blog) of one girl and two guys during this 2016. What we have done is trying to summarize our… Read More Introducing Classic Virus List
This car is indeed a rarity as few more than 100 were built among 1st and 2nd series: this car belongs to the first series and it’s in the U.S.A. You can easily distinguish a first series from a second as this last one has two little fins, ending with small and rounded taillights, and also… Read More Rarity: 1957 Fiat 1100 TV by Pininfarina
Moretti was a car builder in the early stage of his history but, after the coachbuilt cars sunset in the late sixties, he just modified some Fiat models until the end of the company in 1989. One of the cars he used to built was the 127 Coupé like this one, a tenave to build… Read More Humble but elegant: 1973 Moretti 127 Coupé
