Update 30/10: The red Spider at RMauctions sold for GBP181500. A bit below our expectations
With the credit crunch starting to bite left, right and center, more classic cars are coming onto the market. And the people with the money seem to be increasingly looking at blue chip classics as an investment alternative. Some pretty unique cars are changing hands at the moment. Two weeks ago, a 1955 Lancia Aurelia B24 Spider America sold for GBP247,500 at auction and quite amazingly today another 1954 B24 Spider America is going under the hammer at RM Auctions in Central London with an in our opinion very conservative estimate.
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We featured another replica out of Holland a while back (which is still for sale by the way). Now one has come up for sale on German ebay out of a Danish collection. It is a replica made in the late eighties in France, where it took part in hill climbs and rallies.
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Alfa Romeo introduced a new concept car at the Montreal Expo ’67. The car had no real name, so people started calling the car “The Montreal”. So Alfa called it officially the Montreal. How about that for listening to your customers.
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Giannini is another one of those Italian car builders that started with tuning and modifying cars for competition use. They are most famous for the Giannini version of the Fiat 500, which was very successful in competition and sold more than the Fiat 500 Abarth. Here we found a coupé for sale in Naples, Italy, most probably based on a Fiat 1100.
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Moretti is an Italian car manufacturer that got a name for itself making small, commercial and electrical vehicles in the 1920s to 1940s. In the 50s, to reduce costs, it started designing bodies on the basis of a Fiat chassis.
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We must admit, here at Classic Car Hunter, that we were a bit shocked when we saw the first picture of this Ferrari. At first, we thought it was maybe a replica based on a Pontiac Fiero, as there are so many around. Then we read the story behind the car, and knew instantly we had to feature the car.
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For sale in the North of France, close to Calais, is this stylish Alfa Romeo 2000 Spider by Touring. It’s a Series 102 and seems to have been laid up in a barn for quite a few years. It is in need of a full restoration. It will also need a bonnet and an engine. We have no idea what other parts could be missing.
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Francis Lombardi was an Italian WWI hero who started an aircraft factory in 1938. After WWII he went into carrozzeria and started developing body styles based on the Fiat 1100. He also did some design work with the Fiat 600 and developed the Lucciola or “firefly”. It was quite a successful style that he carried through to a couple of other models. A 600 Lucciola has popped up for sale on passioneauto.it in Italy.
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The new Fiat 500 has made the name Abarth hip again with the masses. It also means that old Abarth cars are hipper than ever and here is a very rare one for sale. It is a special edition of the Abarth 850 TC. They hardly come up for sale, but here is one we found in Italy.
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Innocenti is an Italian company that used to make the famous Lambretta scooters after the war. We bet that’s something not a lot of people know. The next little-known fact is probably that Innocenti had a licensing agreement with BMC, the British Leyland Motor Company to produce the Mini and the Austin-Healey Sprite Mark II. Ghia redesigned the Sprite body to match the floorplan. They later even added a roof to it!
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