Classic cars are our passion. Driving our classic cars is an even bigger passion.
But the internet is our addiction ... Just as we can drive for hours, we can surf the internet for hours on end. Always trying to find that special car for sale in some obscure little corner.
Here is a Volvo Amazon we really like. It has a very nice colour with matching bumpers and is fitted with chrome five-spoke wheels that suit the car very well. We’re not sure about the exact year of manufacturing as no exterior badges allow us to identify the car. Maybe someone can give us a hand here?
In the fifties and sixties it was pretty common to get a good chassis and then to put a specially designed body on it, and not just in Britain or Italy. Two Belgians got together in Liège in the fifties and started designing cars on a Beetle chassis. They formed the company APAL and went down the glassfibre route.
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.
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.
After World War II, there was a shortage of cars in Britain and especially of cars for export. Ingenious manufacturers would pick a chassis of a very popular car, design a fibreglass body and stick it on the chassis. A new car was born, a “special”!
The Audi Quattro is undoubtedly one of the most significant rally cars ever made. When the rally car first came out, as rally entry rules dicated, Audi made about 500 homologation cars. These proved so popular with the buying public, that eventually more than 11,000 rolled out of the factory.
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.
Datsun was the name for Nissan cars destined for export. This one is probably the most famous Datsun of them all, the 240 Z. Inspired by the coupe-style of that other icon of motoring, the Jag E-type, this car went on to become the car of the seventies.
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.
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.
