There are a lot of advertised classic car around the web and most of them have brief and boring descriptions; however sometimes it happens to stumble across some very curious stories. In this case, the seller of this 3500 GT in desperate conditions has published an asking price but he states that he’s not looking… Read More Please no money: 1959 Maserati 3500 GT By Touring
We don’t see very often a Giulia GT with a California black plate but here it is: not only it is red but it is also a Veloce model. The Veloce has few horsepower more than its “normal” sister and it was characterized by the three bars front grill, a different steering wheel and different… Read More Red is even faster: 1967 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT Veloce
Virgilio Conrero has been one of the most famous and successful italian tuner of the last century. His career as a tuner began putting his hands on Cisitalia’s soon after the WWII, but his name is mostly gathered with Alfa Romeo: he built his first twin plug head in 1954 and succesfully tuned a lot… Read More Touched by the Genius: 1970 Opel 1900 GT “Conrero Edition”
Update, june 13: here is the car offered here at the next Artcurial auction with an estimate price of €210,000 – 270,000 (today $284,000 – 365,000). Next time follow our suggestions! July 22, 2013: The first time we saw this car we couldn’t understand why the seller wrote 16v into the description. After a check… Read More Autodelta 16v hardcore: 1966 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT gr.5
The production of this little BMW fastback began when the german firm bought Glas, a german whorkshop which basically made most of their cars starting from a BMW chassis and engine. Indeed this car started its life as a Glas 1300 GT in 1964: yet then Glas asked to italian master coachbuilder Pietro Frua to… Read More Italian-german hybrid: 1968 BMW 1600GT by Frua
This ’67 GT Veloce was probably born painted in “Faggio”, but the Texas sun made its job properly and now it looks basically “cooked”. It’s however an interesting project. It wears a set of BWA mag wheels and, despite few rust spot, it doesn’t seem sentenced to death by the metal cancer. On the contrary,… Read More Cooked to perfection: 1967 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT Veloce
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
Here it is the first car designed entirely by the “wizard” Giotto Bizzarrini: it is a four seats, two door coupè called GT 300 as it is one of the early car produced: after few months its name will be changed in “IR 300”. We all know that these car are easy to restore: however,… Read More Fast in four: 1962 Iso Rivolta GT 300
Another coachbuilt car this week; however this time it’s not s car simply based on a Fiat chassis but on a tubolar frame with a skin designed and realized by one of the greatest artisans of metal, Bernardo Fissore. This is not a Fiat but a real O.S.C.A., the company founded by Maserati brothers after… Read More Lemon special: 1961 O.S.C.A. 1600 GT by Fissore
Update, January 12: the car has been posted here with a price lowered to €13,000 (today $18,000) This GT Junior Zagato is something among a driver and a project. it’s a driver for sure as the car, as the seller says, has an overhauled mechanicals; on the other side the car needs some work to… Read More Old but gold: 1972 Alfa Romeo GT Junior by Zagato
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