No, this is definitely not a car to be restored, as even the seller himself suggests, and we can only agree with him. The reason is easy to understand: it seems that this 356 S 75 is completely original and that, ever since it left the Stuttgart factory, it has never been repainted, even partially.… Read More Patina monster/4: 1962 Porsche 356 T6 Coupé
Exactly six years ago, on February 25, 2013, we published an article titled “Patina monster”: that time it was a Volkswagen Beetle while this time it’s her cousin. It’s a Porsche 356 Cabriolet from 1960: once I had the same color even in the color but it was much worse than this which has instead… Read More Patina monster/3: 1960 Porsche 356 B T5 Cabriolet
This is one of the very latest 6C 2500 ever produced and it has not been set up by a coachbuilder like Touring but by the Alfa Romeo body shop. Probably this is one of the last chassis produced and left unsold, and the buyer of the time has had the car set up according… Read More Italian patina: 1952 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 SS Coupé
This 356A (chassis #101663) has been abundantly aged for thirty years in a dry garage that has retained all the main characteristics of this car, starting with a beautiful patina on the paint. However, the actual paint is not original: the first paint was red (at least so it looks like the inside of the… Read More Garage aged: 1957 Porsche 356A T2 Coupé
The car here is a Giulia TI and so far nothing extraordinary, the relevant thing is that this car has been parked for forty years in a garage. In fact, the car has a nice patina: it is not rust or broken glass but the real patina of time (as well as a lot of… Read More Parking patina: 1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia TI
One owner, sitting in a garage since 1986, no rust, never been crashed, matching numbers: there is not much more that you can ask to a classic car, and that’s even more important if that the car is a 911. The only stain of the resume of this car is that the actual color is… Read More Patina mistress: 1971 Porsche 911 T 2.2
This 3rd series Lancia Appia Berlina slept for many years in a east coast garage before being recently unhearted: it has just been cleaned but nothing more than that. The seller says that, prior to 1970, the car belinged to a couple of guys living in Texas, then, in 1980, the car was sold to… Read More East coast patina: 1961 Lancia Appia Berlina
“Patina” is quite an abused noun, often used to tag cars that are actually wrecks: in this case such noun is appropriate as this car looks just like an “old” car. Indeed this is – or seems, at least – a car that hasn’t ever been restored, neither partially: the paint, by now faded, seems… Read More Grey patina: 1962 Lancia Flaminia Coupé 2.5 by Pininfarina
It rarely happens to spot a fifty years old Porsche 911 in such preserved state and when it happens that’s definitely an event. This is indeed a Georgia garage find that, of course, has been left as found. Other than being original, the cars has still its original engine: this adds even more value to… Read More Top notch survivor: 1966 Porsche 911
This Fiat 1500, equipped with the twin cam O.S.C.A. engine, features a beautiful patina over its red paint, but it actually was born painted in pale blue. Indeed the previous owner was an enthusiast racer, as all the period badges on the top of the dashboard say, and so he thought that the red paint… Read More Solid patina: 1962 Fiat 1500 O.S.C.A. Cabriolet by Pininfarina
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