In ancient roman latin language “Vires acquirit eundo” (Virgilio, Eneide, IV, 175) means something like “It gains strength by going”. This phrase was stamped on the metal plate put on the dashboard of this car (and often on Stanguellini cars), just in front of the driver. The same plate it’s still clearly visible on the dashboard… Read More Vires acquirit eundo: 1948 Stanguellini-Fiat 1100 by Bertone
Update, October 8: Almost a record sale for this car which seems to have been sold in one day. We have published another 1500 Ghia for sale here: in that case the car was in beautiful shape although it missed the front badge; in this case the car is in worse conditions but it has a… Read More Tired lady: 1964 Fiat 1500 GT Coupé by Ghia
This 2nd series Fiat 600 still retains the suicide doors but, differently from european cars, has big headlights: it should be an official import car as italian cars had smaller headlights than those. The seller says that he used it to run smo SCCA events just for fun after being restored in Seattle. The interior… Read More Hawaiian green: 1958 Fiat 600
Update, September 27: It seems that the car has been sold. Once we wrote that the classic car world never gets you bored as very often your certainties are questioned: this is another example. Actually this car was built by a gentleman driver, Luciano De Luca, puttin’ toghether a Fiat 509 chassis with a narrow… Read More The experiment: 1949 Fiat/Lancia Barchetta by De Luca
It’s not usual to see a Fiat 1100 in USA, but it’s much more difficult to see a station wagon model: actually these cars are scarce even in Italy so just a real 1100 nut could have imported this car to U.S. Must also say that this car is in very good conditions: the two… Read More Rare in the U.S.A: 1960 Fiat 1100H Familiare
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August 2 – Update: mistery solved! See comments below. 1947 Stanguellini – Bertone 1100 August 2 The base car seems indeed a Fiat 1100S by Pininfarina, probably with a modified front grill, but the mistery remains partially unsolved: where that big Abarth badge and such air scoop come from? The…
Really, the first time we saw a photo of this car we thought that it was a Photoshop® job: but this is not the case. Probably, whoever had the idea to build this car started from a Fiat 850 van (“Promiscuo”) chassis, filled the engine bay with a mean inline-six Fiat 2300 engine backed by… Read More Photoshop® not needed: 1968 Fiat 2300S “Prototipo”
Not many know that only 300 Fiat Osca 1600S Coupé (type 118B) were made. As the classic car market is a little lunatic, we see other similar cars – take the Triumph Italia as example – which fectch many thousand dollars as 329 only were made. Actually we find that this coupé is even more… Read More Three-hundred: 1964 Fiat 1600S OSCA Coupé by Pininfarina
It’s the first time we see such color on a late ’50’s Fiat: it seems a british Primerose Yellow used on period Triumph TR3 or MG A. However, we have no reasons to doubt that it’s the original color as italians spend much care about the correctness of restorations. Indeed this car seems to have… Read More Primerose chic: 1958 Fiat 1200 TV Trasformabile
This 1970 Abarth 595 is based on a Fiat 500L which is recognizable from the “classic” door opening system. Indeed early cars had suicide doors, but you won’t find them easily on the market. This particular car should be a recent italian import as we can spot the front black plate installed. This car has… Read More White scorpion: 1970 Abarth 595
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