This car shares the same destiny which affected a lot of Italian cars in the U.S: a broken engine often implied a swap with a Ford/Chevy V8. That’s even more odd for a car originally equipped with a magnificent DOHC, inline-six engine with a twin spark ignition setup. The strange thing is that this swap… Read More Primed and swapped: 1966 Maserati Mistral Coupé
The aluminium family of the Simca made during the early fifties is quite scarce but, among all those, the Simca 9 is the rarest as it was build just for little more than one year, from 1952 to 1953. Like its sisters, this Simca had an aluminium body sketched by Pininfarina but the car was… Read More Hen’s tooth: 1952 Simca 9 Sport by Facel
This former beauty actually needs a complete treatment in a wellness center, including some plastic surgery interventions: both will not be cheap but we’re pretty sure about how good the result will be. In the past we’ve published cars like this one priced one-third of this one but all we know that times are changed… Read More Three under the hood: 1964 Lancia Flaminia Gt Coupé by Touring
When we saw this ad we believed that the seller put the wrong description: the car looked like a 1500S Coupé, but actually the seller explains this discrepancy. Indeed this car is said to have been built in november 1962 whilst the “official” build year of the 1600S is 1963: the seller says that this… Read More Hybrid body: 1962 Fiat 1600S Coupé by Pininfarina
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
December 31, 2015 – 28 months later In the last update of this article I wrote that “the car is almost ready”: indeed that “almost” was heavier than I could ever thought. Actually I’m not surprised at all about the follow up activities of a restoration job, but this is a complex car, more complex than… Read More A restoration tale: 1967 Maserati Ghibli 4.7 Coupé (update #15 – December 31)
As usual for french cars until the early nineties, this french delivered Dino 2000 Coupé has proper yellow headlights: the rest of the car is quite stock, including the not-running engine (which is said to be not stuck). Indeed this seems a very correct old Dino 2000: the seller says that the car has been… Read More Yellow eyes: 1967 Fiat Dino 2000 Coupé
This Mistral belongs to one of the first batch of these cars which were equipped with the same engine of their predecessor, the 3500 GT series, although increased of 200 c.c. It was sold new in Italy, in a region which has snow during the winter: snow means salt on the tarmac and indeed this car… Read More Trans-continental: 1964 Maserati Mistral Coupé
This little car with such an important name was produced by the german Goliath-Werke Borgward & Co until 1959, when these cars changed their name into Hansa. So, 1958 was the year in which the 1100 Coupé has been produced with the Goliath name, and considering that the coupé was produced in lower numbers than the estate… Read More Big name, little car: 1958 Goliath 1100 Coupé
The last series of the Mistral is the only to have the biggest inline-six engine ever produced by Maserati: it’s a 4.0 litre unit which, in this case, is not into the car. The seller doesn’t say much about this car: basically he says that although the body is in nice shape (and actually it seems… Read More Outboard engine: 1966 Maserati Mistral 4.0 Coupé
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