My Car Quest

May 24, 2025

Confessions of a Former Barn Finder

by Wallace Wyss - I know there's still the AutoTrader but my short lived career as a barn finder was built on the original newspaper-style Auto Trader that you could get at any liquor store. My method was to not look like a slickster from The … [Read more...]

Lost And Found: The Bizzarrini Manta

by Wallace Wyss - Rule 1, when you are founding your own car design firm, is to make a dramatic-as-all-hell show car and I think the Bizzarrini Manta qualifies. This was Giorgetto Giugiaro's strategy when he started his own design firm, … [Read more...]

One Man And His Bizzarrini GT 5300

by Mike Gulett - Ken Phillips bought his Bizzarrini GT 5300 new in Italy in the late '60s and had it shipped to the US East Coast where it stayed for the next few decades. The very same Bizzarrini GT 5300 Strada (No. 0256) that I owned many years … [Read more...]

Bizzarrini GT 5300 Strada – Rare Birds No. 2

by Mike - Below is a 5:34 video featuring a rare car that most of us do not see everyday or Rare Birds as I call them. This is Rare Birds No. 2 in this series (Rare Birds No. 1 is here). I owned this 1966 Bizzarrini GT 5300 Strada (chassis no. … [Read more...]

Buying A Bizzarrini GT 5300

Wherein Our Resident Barn Finder Tells of a Great Find... by Wallace Wyss - So here’s how it went down. I was, in the '80s, for a time, a barn finder. Now that the internet exists, I am not. But back in those days I would run pictures of cars, … [Read more...]

Drogo Ferrari 250 GT

by Mike - In the post, More Classic Car Photos From Padova, Italy, Herbert Putz sent in photos of a beautiful blue Drogo Ferrari. This motivated Stephen Mitchell to comment "The blue Drogo is a fascinating car with a mix of GTO themes and … [Read more...]