In 1948, visitors to the Turin Motor Show could see an unusual Lancia on the stand of Carrozzeria Ghia. It was a large two-door coupé with a two-litre V8 mounted behind the…
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Read storyWhen the doors of the Geneva Motor Show opened in March 1947, Maserati was a name that required little introduction to anyone who followed motor racing. What it did not yet possess…
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Read storyAC wanted the performance of a Cobra without the punishment. Pietro Frua gave it something altogether more sophisticated: one of the most intriguing Anglo-American-Italian grand tourers of the 1960s. At the 1965…
Read storyPiero Taruffi, Sergio Sartorelli and the final experimental flourish of Officine Stampaggi Industriali OSI Silver Fox: The Catamaran Built for Le Mans At the Turin Motor Show in the autumn of 1967,…
Read storyWhen Fiat introduced the 128 in 1969, the important news lay beneath a very conventional three-box body. Dante Giacosa's new family car placed its engine transversely ahead of the front wheels, a…
Read storyHow one compact 1.1-litre Lancia became a meeting place for Pinin Farina, Vignale, Zagato, Motto, Allemano, Boano and Viotti—and one of the richest experiments of Italy’s coachbuilding age.
Read storyHow Ercole Spada and Zagato turned Alfa Romeo’s grand six-cylinder coupé into one of the strangest, rarest and most revealing GTs of the 1960s Carrozzieri-Italiani · Long-form research feature A shape that…
Read storyEstate, Saloon and Spider variants, Paolo Garella’s engineering role and the chassis currently documented by Carrozzieri-Italiani The Ferrari 456 GT was conceived as a modern return to Ferrari’s front-engined V12 2+2 tradition.…
Read storyIntroduced in 1957, the Maserati 3500 GT marked the company’s transition from low-volume, competition-derived road cars to sustained Gran Turismo production. The A6 series had already established the principle, but the Tipo…
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