This is said to be one of the last Italia 2000 made and indeed is equipped with a Triumph TR3-B engine with a 2200 cc. displacement. As one of the last cars made, we’d expect to see the external fuel filler but this car has still the previous series fuel tank with the filler inside the… Read More Painstakingly maintained: 1963 Italia 2000 Coupé by Vignale
We know that Dutchmen go nut for italian coachbuilt cars of the 50-60 era based on Fiats, so this article is especially dedicated to them. What we have here is a coupè built by Vignale in his earliest times, based on a Fiat 1400. We knew immediately that this is a car made by Vignale as the… Read More Enter the coachbuilt: 1950 Fiat 1400 Coupé “Orchidea” by Vignale
What about a Ferrari powered by eight legs insted of twelve cylinders? Classic cars world is somehow strange, but this is one of the strangest things seen so far. It’s actually a Ferrari 212 body (#13) coming from a car crashed in the early eighties; maybe back then a total restoration was unaffordable or, at… Read More Leg power: 1952 Ferrari 212 Inter Cabriolet
Lately it’s not easy to find interesting classic cars for sale, especially for picky guys like we are. However, luckily someone, many years ago, thought to leave cars like this in a barn, just to let them being discovered many years later. This 1962 Appia cabriolet was one of the few made by Vignale which… Read More Hibernated lady: 1962 lancia Appia Cabriolet by Vignale
Nowadays it often happens that “spider” means “exclusive” and “expensive” but not many years ago, you didn’t need to be rich to drive with the wind in your hair. The 850 Spider was one of those cars made not to affirm a social status, but just to have fun without spending a lot of money.… Read More Red but understated: 1965 Fiat 850 Spider by Vignale
Update, same day: This car has gone fast, sometimes the bird must be even earlier… When the Appia came out, many coachbuilders made a lot of style exercises on this platform, the most famous of them were for sure Pininfarina and Vignale: The Pininfarina coupè has for sure a sleeker line than this car which, however, still… Read More Two doors only: 1960 Lancia Appia Coupé By Vignale
This coachbuilt Fiat 1100 with an aluminium body by Vignale has seen better days: indeed it is now waiting for someone who take care of it. It is a total restoration project which has been somehow begun but we must say that we don’t like that floors at all: the seems like two simple metal sheet… Read More Aluminium legacy: 1951 Fiat 1100 By Vignale
This car is one of the few survivor of the special coachbuilt series built by Vignale on the Fiat 600 chassis and engine, although often slightly tuned by Abarth. Back in the golden coachbuilders era, every new mass produced car, especially by Fiat, was a new opportunity to build something special for a restricted and… Read More Economy with style: 1957 Fiat 600 Rendez-Vous by Vignale
Although it’s called “Fiat”, this coupè was never marketed as a Fiat but sold by independent dealers, not related with Fiat. This because it was designed and built by Vignale in about 100 units in order to fill the market gap of a well priced luxury coupé. So it is actually based on the chassis… Read More Chestnut brown special: 1968 Fiat 125 “Samantha” by Vignale
One of the last well priced Flavia Convertibile on the market is this white and blue car. It carries a huge amount of patina but, as the seller says, it run and drives. Although it’s not clear if the white paint is original, for sure the tired, blue interior is it. And, as the white/blue… Read More French patina: 1964 Lancia Flavia 1.8 Convertibile by Vignale
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