Bruno Patriarca was a famous tuner and builder who built – inside his shop in Roma, Italy – many race cars. He started his business in the late fourties and ended in the late sixties. This car is said to have been designed by him in 1966, it is a prototype built using parts from… Read More Mixed flavors: 1966 Patriarca 3000 GTS
Actually we didn’t now how to name this car as it is a prototype built in 1968, using different parts from different cars. The engine should come from, we suppose, from a Chevrolet Corvair Corsa, it is a flat six engine with the “Corsa” option so it is fed with four carburetors and it has… Read More Something in the middle: 1968 MC GT38 Porsche/Corsa
This Hillman Imp built by Zagato (very often called “Zimp”) is one of the three prototypes built by the famous italian coachworks, and actually It looks the same as it left the factory. Under the coachbuilt body there is quite a sophisticated, albeit small, car; as the seller remarks this little car had an aluminium… Read More Older restoration: 1963 Hillman Imp by Zagato
We didn’t understand much about the origins of this car so, please, whoever has some more info about it could tell us and we’ll be glad to publish them. Indeed this car (chassis #101.20 00196) , which looks a “normal” Giulietta Sprint Speciale is said to be one of the four prototypes built by Alfa Romeo… Read More More info needed: 1960 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Speciale “P2”
We didn’t know about the existence of this car: ok, maybe our knowledge of british cars is smaller than the italian one but we didn’t imagine to miss a factory produced car. The seller says that this is one of the two HKV produced: maybe they realized that the car was too heavy and slow so… Read More Only two made: 1949 Triumph TRX-HKV 20
We don’t know the exact build year of this prototype, nor on what car it is based. We don’t know who built it too but whoever did it was not a design master for sure. The only thing for sure is that this car is rear-engined so it could be based on a Simca 1000… Read More Miss ugly: 1975 Simca Civic
This 2000Gt has, of course, a very high asking price but actually that’s not the highest seen so far. Then, this should be the first 2000GT made and that means something. What we see here is indeed a car which wears the chassis plate number one; it is said to have been never restored and… Read More High but not the highest: 1971 Toyota 2000GT (#0001)
Really, the first time we saw a photo of this car we thought that it was a Photoshop® job: but this is not the case. Probably, whoever had the idea to build this car started from a Fiat 850 van (“Promiscuo”) chassis, filled the engine bay with a mean inline-six Fiat 2300 engine backed by… Read More Photoshop® not needed: 1968 Fiat 2300S “Prototipo”
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