Stella Alpina literally means “Alpine Star”, but the name does not refer to an astronomical object but to a very rare flower that grows on alpine meadows. And this is the name that was used by the Monviso bodyshop (coincidentally, the name of a mountain in the Alpine chain) for this special car built on… Read More Brown flower: 1947 Fiat 1100B “Stella Alpina” by Monviso
The Monviso body shop was not new to the standard Fiat modification, to create special cars for those wealthy customers who wanted to stand out from the crowd. Clearly Monviso was one of the dozens of Italian bodyshops that dedicated themselves to this kind of work, but it was one of the largest and in… Read More Almost blue: 1948 Fiat 1500 Trasformabile by Monviso
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
“Never seen before” are the right words to summarize this car which is maybe one of the few, if not the only, survivor of a small series built by Monviso coachworks in 1958. Indeed this is the first one we see one for sale, and maybe this is the only one in many years to come.… Read More Expensive displacement: 1958 Fiat 600 Multipla by Monviso
The “Stella Alpina” is the name of a rare flower growing along the Alps rising on the northern edge of Italy: it’s so rare that if the police catches you with one of those you will pay a huge ticket. This car is even more rare than such flower. Monviso coachworks, which built this ca, was specialised… Read More Many badges: 1950 Fiat 1100 “Stella Alpina” by Monviso
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