You don’t often see many examples of this rare coupé, the result of a collaboration between the British Sunbeam and the Italian Touring, yet this specimen is the most stunning one we’ve encountered so far. According to the Touring Superleggera registry, only 41 examples of the Sunbeam Venezia (which was already produced in extremely limited… Read More One owner: 1965 Sunbeam Venezia by Touring
This car was the swan song of Carrozzeria Touring, indeed, perhaps it was the cause of its financial meltdown. Let’s start from the beginning: The car was the result of the collaboration between the Rootes group and the Touring body shop, which already assembled the Sunbeam Alpine and the Hillman Super Minx in its Milan… Read More The last song: 1965 Sunbeam Venezia by Touring
Apparently only 145 of them were made, Touring of Milano took care of their build and, consequently, they all had aluminum bodywork. The goal of Sunbeam was to rely on one of the most famous Italian ateliers to build an elegant coupé that could compete, for example, with the Lancia Flaminia built from the same… Read More The Italian Job/3: 1964 Sunbeam Venezia by Touring
Mark contacted us as he wants to downsize his collection after some events made him think about what’s important and what’s not, so here it is part of the collection he’s getting rid of: many important pieces, some unique. It’s useless that we describe all the items, so we’ll copy and paste his own words.… Read More From California: A collection for sale
This Sunbeam Venezia (chassis #009/145) is one of the first made and one of the very few cars survived so far: actually this has not survived well but still it is in one piece only. That’s easy for these cars to have a nice body as it’s made of aluminium so rust is never a… Read More Alu look & feel: 1964 Sunbeam Venezia by Touring
This is the second Sumbeam venezia we stumble on in three years and that doesn’t astonish us as this car is very rare as 140 were built, and just an handful of these has survived until nowadays. This car, revealed the first time to the press in 1963 in San Marco square in Venezia, Italy, was… Read More The italian job/2: 1964 Sunbeam Venezia by Touring
Here it is a rare car made upon an anglo-italian connection. It’s not the first time we see such hybrids, but generally only top-end cars were commissioned to the italian masters of Touring (one for all: the AM DB4 GT by Zagato). This is a rare exception to such rule. This car was made from… Read More Montecarlo night blue: 1964 Sunbeam Venezia by Touring
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