Mr. Rapley confirms his skills in finding Zagato cars. What we have here is a double sale: a 750 Double Bubble and a (stock) Fiat 600 Multipla. The Zagato needs everything: no engine or gearbox (even if the seller provides them apart, and even more than one), floors have to be rebuilt and, substantially, a… Read More Buncha Fiat 600: 1959 Abarth Zagato 750 and Fiat 600 Multipla
It’s crazy, it’s odd, it’s a Fiat hot rod. We could never imagine a transformation like this for a Fiat 600D but, like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used to say, reality is way more bizarre than how fiction could ever be. The seller says that this car benefitted of a rotisserie restoration and only then four… Read More Euro trash-hot-rod: 1964 Fiat 600D
We know that such poetic verse could be a bit too stretched to be used for a car but, what we have realized in many years is that, even the “humblest” classic car could astonish you if it’s properly set up and if your mind is not biased by concepts like “value”. This Fiat 128 Sport Coupé… Read More The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind: 1975 Fiat 128 Sport Coupé
We featured another Fiat OSCA 1600S Coupè (type 118b) last year: that was a beautiful car which needed nothing, and the asking price was a little more of the half of this one. We said that it is a rare car – 273 made as the seller says – but we didn’t believe that it… Read More Hot market: 1963 Fiat 1600S OSCA Coupé
This 1957 Giardinetta Viotti “Sleeping” is basically the italian, small equivalent of the american Chevy Nomad, as a two door station wagon. Back then, this car had quite a good selling success as it was the ideal car for the big families where the baby-boomers were growing. However, it was not a cheap car: it… Read More Italian nomad: 1957 Fiat Giardinetta “Sleeping” by Viotti
This 1500S Cabrio project has travelled half of the world: the seller says that, back in ’63, it was bought new by the owner in Netherlands which took the car to NY and then, in mid ’70’s, moved back to Netherlands bringing again the car with him. It is a project car with a lot… Read More Globetrotter: 1963 Fiat 1500S OSCA Cabriolet
Update, September 29: Reader Quasimodo has bought this car to restore it. It’s not a job for the fearful: stay tuned on his progress checking periodically his progress here: http://fiat1500ghiarestoration.blogspot.nl/ March 10 This 1500 GT was made by Ghia using the chassis and the engine of the Fiat 1500: back then it was a respectable little… Read More Dentist required: 1963 Fiat 1500 GT Coupé by Ghia
This Abarth 595 (not properly called Fiat as they were built by Abarth) is said to be an original car with a racing past. It wears the chassis number 669510/01284. We never saw a 595 with a two-tone paint but Abarth was more an artisan than a builder so some production variations must be considered.… Read More Modified original: 1964 Abarth 595 D
The seller says that this car was made in 1954 but actually it was built ten years later, as in 1954 there wasn’t any Fiat 1600S nor a Fiat d.o.h.c. engine: we suppose that it’s simply a misprint. However, this car is a real Fiat 1600S OSCA dressed by Savio, a well known coachbuilder born… Read More Razor-sharp edge: 1964 Fiat 1600S O.S.C.A. by Savio
Apart from having the same colors of Bumblebee (the Camaro of the film Transformers), this tiny car has another similarity with such film: it is basically a Fiat 500 chassis and engine transformed by Ferves, a little company among other similar companies which rose in the late ‘60’s and generally closed in the mid ‘80’s.… Read More Transformer: 1967 Ferves Ranger 500
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