The Cisitalia 202 was one of the defining post-war Italian sports cars, celebrated as much for its engineering as for its styling. While the Pinin Farina-designed coupé entered the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, a small number of bespoke cabriolets and special-bodied variants were commissioned from coachbuilders including Vignale.… Read More Silver jewel: 1950 Cisitalia 202B Cabriolet by Vignale
This Peugeot 203 Barchetta by Barbier is one of those rare postwar French specials that survived as a testament to a period when creativity and racing spirit went hand in hand. Built on the robust Peugeot 203 platform introduced in 1948, Barbier’s barchetta was conceived as a lightweight open sports car for hill climbs and… Read More Blue barchetta: 1951 Peugeot 203 Barchetta by Barbier
Many do not know that, in addition to the Sportiva based on Fiat 850, Moretti also produced two subsequent versions, the S2 and the S4: we did not even know of the latter’s existence. In fact, the seller says that according to him this is a rare car: according to us it is very rare… Read More Almost Sportiva: 1969 Moretti 850 Special S4
Dual carbs, Navarro intake, Thickstun heads on a flathead Ford V8 is what pushes this beautiful fiberglass roaster built in 1957. Actually this is another fiberglass car published in a very short amount of time but, unfortunetely, we can’t decide when special cars pop out for sale so here it is: another beautiful example of… Read More Not steel: 1957 Byers Special SR100
This is not the “common” trasformabile but a rare special version featuring the engine type 004 which was the same installed in the Fiat 500 Sport which you can see here. The chassis of this car is the type 110B which is also different by the common type 110 of the “normal” Bianchina Trasformabile: the… Read More Solid and even rarer: 1959 Autobianchi Bianchina Trasformabile Special
All new. All easy. All free. Classic Virus List: classicviruslist.com is our new trick, the result of dozens of working weekends and hundreds of overtime work hours (after our “regular” work and the enrichment of this blog) of one girl and two guys during this 2016. What we have done is trying to summarize our… Read More Introducing Classic Virus List
This is a car which, honestly, we didn’t know the existence of. Ok we’re not so skilled about british cars (and that’s not a good thing), but we’re quite surprised to have ignored such beautiful car so far. It has not the legendary allure of some italian sports car of the same period which, to… Read More Cherry and cream: 1953 Daimler Special Sports by Barker
This is actually a rare combination: a 1968 Fiat 850 special 2nd series mated with a period (one year younger than the Fiat) trailer, painted in the same shade, a kind of sand beige. Both them look restored properly even of the seller didn’t post any detailed photos; however we can spot quite a good… Read More Italian bundle: 1968 Fiat 850 Special + 1967 Franza trailer
The history of the american fiberglass cars is still quite obscure as many of these were produced in very few specimens and, nonetheless, the italian sports cars of the same era cast a huge shoadow on these creations. Steel and aluminium were much more expensive than fiberglass and they required skills and time to be… Read More Forgotten: 1955 Californian Sport Special
It’s the first time we see this car, and the first time we hear of Sid Ward, the coachbuilder who shaped this beautiful aluminium body. So, we don’t know Sid Ward but, watching this car, we are sorry that he didn’t keep on building other cars as this man had a good eye and a great sense… Read More Australian special: 1955 Austin Healey 100 BN1 by Ward
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