In case you missed this year edition of the Mille Miglia, don’t worry: this is a car that hardly can be refused by their organisation: many joined the MM during the fifties and maybe this one was one of those. The car we have here has been fully restored: never judge a car trough a… Read More Next time: 1954 Fiat 1100 TV Coupé by Pininfarina
Nope, we never saw one before. We are still astonished about how many italian coachbuilt cars were made up to the seventies, and indeed often we stumble upon an unknown car just like this. We also realized that, in our literature, we miss a book about the coachbuilt Fiat 1300/1500 so now we have to… Read More Never seen one: Moretti Spider 1300
Yep, the name of ths car is quite long and the car which it belongs to is quite rare: probably the only one in the U.S.A. an one of the very few made at the beginning of the fifties. Finding this car at 6,000 miles from where it was built is indeed odd, given the… Read More Three seater: 1950 Fiat 1500E Cabriolet “Riviera” By Stabilimenti Farina
This 125S Samantha has been registered few months before the car accident in which Alfredo Vignale, an absolute protagonist of the car history, passed away in November 1969: this model is basically his last creation. So, his style heritage is still impressed in this car which was built upon the Fiat 125 platform: this is… Read More The last job: 1969 Fiat 125 S “Samantha” by Vignale
At the beginning we believed that the seller wrote a wrong number about the kms made by this car: actually the seller reiterates in the description that the car has done just 6000 kms from new. If true, this car should have the right to enter into the Guinnes World Records in the “Less driven”… Read More Six thousand kms: 1964 OSI 1200 Cabriolet
We aren’t actually pretty sure that this is the same car published here five years ago, however there are big chances that it is the same vehicle. How many cars like this, with the same color combo, are still around? Sure is that since the first publication, the car has been totally restored and you… Read More Five years later: 1957 Fiat 1100 Tv “Desireé” by Vignale
First time we see this car for real, and probably the last time we’ll see one for many years . It’s a very rare “Giardiniera” built by Monviso coachworks on a Fiat 1100 BL chassis. Indeed so far we have seen this model only in our literature and we actually doubted that any car like… Read More Hen’s teeth: 1948 Fiat 1100 BL Giardiniera by Monviso
The Samantha, based on the Fiat 125 chassis and engine, is one of the last creation of Vignale and, we think, one of the better ones. Even though it was based on a Fiat, this car was never sold by Fiat dealers and that’s probably why there aren’t many cars around. Moreover, a 1600 c.c.… Read More Twin cam blue: 1969 Fiat 125 S “Samantha” by Vignale
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
Finding a special Fiat coupé still in restorable conditions is now a very rare thing, that’s why finding a 1500 Coupé built by Alemano is an event by now. Allemano was a well know coachbuilder which saw a peak in popularity during the first half of the sixties, when the company built top-notch cars among… Read More A special one: 1962 Fiat 1500 Coupé by Allemano
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