A rarely seen example of Alfa Romeo’s unconventional approach to practicality: a 1980 Alfasud 1300 Giardinetta. The seller has provided minimal information, so any considerations here are based on what the model represents rather than specific details about this particular car. The Alfasud Giardinetta is one of the least common variants of the Alfasud range.… Read More Ultra rare sight: 1980 Alfa Romeo Alfasud 1300 Giardinetta
We don’t know exactly in which year and by which coachbuilder this Giulia station wagon dedicated to roadside assistance was built. The year is unspecified by the seller, who mentions 1975, but it seems improbable, given that the production of the car had ended five years prior. The license plate also dates back to 1975,… Read More Unknown coachbuilder: 1975 Alfa Romeo Giulia Diesel “Soccorso stradale”
The trend of “Woody” cars was not exclusive to North America; Italians were already embracing it in the 1930s with the Fiat 500B and later with cars like this splendid Aurelia B53. By the early 1950s, this trend was on the decline, yet some nostalgics continued to commission cars with wooden body parts from carrozzerie.… Read More Woody style: 1952 Lancia Aurelia B53 Giardinetta by Viotti
This Giulia is one of the extremely rare station wagon versions, never produced for the general public but rather as vehicles generally used by law enforcement or for Italian highway services and very few other purposes. In fact, there were only four coachbuilders in Italy to whom this car was commissioned: Colli, Giorgetti, Introzzi, and… Read More Rare patrol: 1970 Alfa Romeo Giulia 1600 Giardinetta by Grazia
Even if it seems to you that the line of this car is quite well known, it is likely that you are confused with a Fiat: but this is not. It is in fact one of the few Lancia Appia transformed by Viotti for a more “practical” use: despite this, the car has only two… Read More Special wagon: 1957 Lancia Appia Giardinetta by Viotti
We can say that the first to have developed the concept of “sporty station wagon” were the Italians, at least judging by this model. Obviously “sporty” is a relative term: today this car would be surpassed in terms of performance by the cheapest car on the market, but then this was not a car for… Read More Ancient gold: 1954 Fiat 1100 TV Giardinetta by Viotti
Even in Europe, in the late 1940s, the long wave of cars built with metal and wood arrived, a style dictated mostly by Chrysler and Ford since the early 40’s. Italy in those years had a strong commercial exchange with the United States (its main customer for many goods) and the American continent in general,… Read More Italian woody: 1951 Lancia Aurelia B51 Giardinetta by Viotti
Taking a car trip like the one described below would make you heroes nowadays. Doing it 70 years ago, alone, without satellite phone, gps, air conditioning, asphalted roads driving a Fiat 1100, seems an almost superhuman feat just for having thought of it. The author of this driving company around the world was Franco Nacci,… Read More 1 Man, 1 Car, 22 Months, 38 Countries, 45,000 Miles: Franco Nacci
How many of these wagons have you seen live or for sale in recent years? I’ll tell you: none, because this is an extremely rare car. It is in fact a special body made by Monterosa, a bodyshop very active in the first decade after WWII which was working in particular on Fiat. In fact, we… Read More Special wagon: 1951 Fiat 1100 E wagon by Monterosa
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
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