It’s very curious to find a GT 390 Fastback coming from Italy where, probably, just an handful of these cars are actually registered. That’s even more surprising as this is one of the most wanted Mustang: the 1967 GT 390 is an icon of the american cars production of the last century, mainly thanks to… Read More Italian stallion/2: 1967 Ford Mustang GT 390 Fastback
What matters for a classic car nut is limited to a nice body, seats, wheels, engine, gearbox and few other things: that’s exactly what this car offer; no more than that. This car is indeed a Mark II by Falcon Shells: this factory was founded by a former firm of Ashley, Peter Pelladine, who left Ashley Laminates… Read More What matters: 1958 Falcon Shells Mark I
I always wondered how driving this car could be: a squat look, a light bod, a short wheel base, a steering wheel, a manual gearbox and a mighty Ford 289 c.i. under the lid, producing almost 300 hp and plenty of torque. For sure you have to be very skilled to exploit the power and… Read More Intimidator: 1965 TVR Griffith
The history of the american fiberglass cars is still quite obscure as many of these were produced in very few specimens and, nonetheless, the italian sports cars of the same era cast a huge shoadow on these creations. Steel and aluminium were much more expensive than fiberglass and they required skills and time to be… Read More Forgotten: 1955 Californian Sport Special
Ok, maybe this car is not a station wagon anymore as it has been rebuilt welding two ’57 Ford Fairlane front clip in order to build a “palindrome” car, like the VW Beetle published here a little more than two years ago. But, differently from the double-faced VW Beetle, this car was build in 1968… Read More Push-Me-Pull-You/2: 1957 Ford Fairlane Station Wagon
This ’61 Falcon Station wagon two-door is said to be a rare car and, indeed, after some internet searches we’ve found very few specimens for sale around. The seller says that this car has been completely restored after having been parked for years (since the late ’70, according to the family which sold the car… Read More Rare bird: 1961 Falcon V8 2dr Wagon
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
These little fiberglass cars were called, when built in this configuration, “Cobra killers” and that’s not hard to figure out why. Less than 200 of these little monsters were made for the US market: this is a 50 years old car but that’s nothing old in its performance: thanks to its low weight mated to a… Read More Cobra killer: 1966 TVR Griffith Series 200
I remember, not more than 10 years ago (when I yet started to scrutinise every classic car ad all around the world) that it was plenty of ’67 GT 390 fastback for sale and you could bring home a concours specimen for no more than $35K. Of course time passes (and inflation grows) so for… Read More Bruce’s Burgundy: 1967 Ford Mustang 390GT Fastback
We didn’t ever thought about the Ford Taunus as a stilish coupé but watching this car we must change our mind. It’s a “usual” Ford taunus coupé, ok, but this was to top-end model on which, actually, it was also based the beautiful OSI 20M TS Coupè, fetured several times on Classic Virus. It has… Read More Hidden class: 1969 Ford Taunus 20M 2300
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