The smiling face is, of course, the nose of this 1500S without headlights, front grill and bumper. And that’s because the car is in the early stage of a deep restoration. What is clear is that the restoration of this car wasn’t carried out by professionals but, probably, by the owner itself who tried to… Read More That smiling face/2: 1962 Fiat 1500S OSCA Cabriolet
Six people can fit in this car which was designed to carry the large families of the sixties without spending the huge amount of money needed for a Giulietta Berlina or another equivalent car of that era. Of course 50 years ago people were both shorter (and generally thinner) than how they are nowadays, but… Read More Six people together: 1960 Fiat 600 Multipla
Two Derby by Bertone for sale in two months is probably a rare event: this car is the blue version of its sister published here last month. The seller says that he owns this car since 2000 and that since then the car benefitted by a sympathetic restoration also with the help of an expert of… Read More The blue one: 1949 Fiat 1100 “Derby” by Bertone
We know this car: we’ve seen it for sale in Italy about six years ago at a dealer in the north-east of Italy. Then it disappeared and now it has migrated in Germany, where it’s actually for sale. This barchetta was built by Trevisan, a coachbuilder located in the north-east of Italy: we know very few… Read More Alfa inspiration: 1954 Fiat 500C Barchetta by Trevisan
The swivel seat are the typical feature of these spider built from 1955 to 1959: the first series were based on the 1100 TV engine while later cars like this have a 1200 cc engine and different trims. These cars were designed by Luigi Rapi at Fiat Carrozzerie Speciali (the special coach division of Fiat);… Read More Swivel seats: 1958 Fiat 1200 TV Spider
The first thing that has caught our attention about this car is the beautiful pale blue mated to the striking red leather interiors. Then we realized that this coupé has the OSCA engine too. That’s not the most powerful Fiat OSCA made (like the 1600S 118B): this engine is 100 c.c. smaller and it is fed… Read More Blue meets red: 1961 Fiat 1500 OSCA Coupé by Pininfarina
The enormous number of variations based on the Fiat 1100 platform included, of course, a station wagon body, actually already made on the 1100-103 model of the late fifties and then continued until the early seventies. This station wagon, called “Familiare” is based on the penultimate version of the 1100 dynasty, the “D” series which… Read More Enough space: 1966 Fiat 1100D Familiare
More than a proper coupé this Granluce (something like “great light”) is basically a two door sedan: actually back in the early fifties this was the cutting edge Fiat model just after, of course, the 8V. And few knows that this car was originally designed to be pushed by the famous 8V Fiat engine, mostly because… Read More Panoramic view: 1954 Fiat 1900 “Granluce” Coupé
There are still few specimens around of this rare coachbuilt Fiat built by Bertone and called “Derby”, but if you search for other cars like this you immediately see that this is the most correct and complete specimen. And, other than being basically perfect, it has also a striking color combo: apple red with tan interiors… Read More Never this nice: 1949 Fiat 1100 “Derby” by Bertone
Ok the seller doesn’t mention the build year of this Cisitalia made in Argentina but we know pretty well that these were built for three years, from 1959 to 1961 starting, of course, from the chassis of a Fiat 600. Actually this one just one of the several models built by Cisitalia Argentina after that… Read More South of the border: 1959 Cisitalia 750 Spyder
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