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In the story of Lancia's long and celebrated past, the Beta has unfortunately not been one of the happier chapters. Especially in the UK, rust problems on the early examples led to all sorts of customer relations problems, and as the press attached themselves to the story and blew it into a scandal, the legendary Italian carmaker's reputation was in the dumps. The Beta was also the first model introduced by Lancia after they were bought by Fiat … [Read more...]
Even a run-down Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciale is a beautiful thing to behold. The impossibly curvy lines of that Bertone coachwork are the stuff of dreams, and it makes you wonder why it took so long for these to become highly valuable collector cars. But getting valuable is exactly what these little gems have done, with good examples reaching well into six figure territory. The only bargain examples left are therefore the rough kind, which brings … [Read more...]
Survival numbers of the earliest generation of truly lavish dual-purpose supercars, both in percentage and absolute terms, are miniscule. One would be hard-pressed to justify any other single surviving car's ability to better match the distinction of the 60HP FIAT, in its various forms, as the world's first cost-no-object road going supercar for supremacy on both public roads and the fastest racing circuits. Chassis 3003, this 1905 FIAT 60HP … [Read more...]
A few weeks back, we featured an Alfa Romeo 2000 Spider that was a bit of a basket case. This car, a later 2600 Spider located in San Clemente, California, is pretty much a complete 180 and a machine that's seen a lot of love. The seller is the third owner, but has a personal history with the car that goes back to when it was new. A friend of his father's first bought it in Oregon, and drove it for about a decade before actually selling it … [Read more...]
This 1953 Ferrari 340/375 MM Berlinetta Competizione is offered for sale at the upcoming RM Auctions Villa d'Este sale, scheduled for May 25, 2013 in Cernobbio, Italy as part of the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d'Este weekend. Combining rarity, powerful mechanical specifications and important racing history, chassis 0320AM is one of three 340/375 MM works race cars that Ferrari entered at the 1953 24 Hours of Le Mans in its efforts to counter … [Read more...]
The new Fiat Multipla that thankfully left us in 2010 finishes near the top of several "ugliest car ever made" lists, but the original Multipla version of the Fiat 600 was actually a charming, if odd, little machine. The old car sat the driver pretty much right over the front axle, which allowed it to seat six people at least somewhat comfortably, so it's no wonder that in Italy during the '60s Multiplas decked out as taxis were a common sight. … [Read more...]
Throughout the 1930s, Turinese textile industrialist Piero Dusio indulged his passion for motorsport. After winning his class on the 1937 Mille Miglia, he began to explore the possibilities of building his own racing cars. In 1946, the D46 single-seater appeared, built using readily-available Fiat mechanicals within a tubular steel space-frame chassis crafted at Cisitalia’s bicycle factory. The lightweight car swept all before it in the hands … [Read more...]
Moretti got started in the 1920s as a motorcycle manufacturer and is probably best known to sports car people for their wonderful little machines of the 1950s, but the company survived well into the 1980s by making cars with heavy use of Fiat parts and running gear. Their most celebrated model would have to be the 750, introduced in 1953. Morettis featured a frankly dizzying array of bodies, all of them beautiful, and the twin-cam versions of the … [Read more...]
Before there was the 124 Spider or the X1/9, there was the little 1200. For a lot of people other than Fiat aficionados, and especially compared to the later mass-produced cars, the 1200 is actually somewhat obscure. Lay eyes on one, though, and you'd be surprised how memorable it is. The Pininfarina body, along with Fiat badges that are presented quite subtly, make it look like a miniature Ferrari roadster, and the general look of the car is … [Read more...]
Designed by Orazio Satta, the 1900 was a big step for Alfa Romeo in that it was their first postwar design, first series-production car, first unibody, and first model with left hand drive. It also represented Alfa's wise move towards the more affordable end of the performance car spectrum. Several changes were made to the twin-cam engine over the years, the most notable of which was the enlargement to 1,975 cc for the 1900 Super. An even hotter … [Read more...]
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