by Don Meluzio - The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance was as usual a Wonderful Event held on March 8, 2020. Bill Warner creates such an attitude with everyone who is involved in the Concours that they make sure that you feel welcome and they … [Read more...]
Confessions of a Former Barn Finder
April 8, 2020 By 6 Comments
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
April 2, 2019 By 3 Comments
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
March 24, 2019 By 5 Comments
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
February 22, 2019 By 7 Comments
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
December 10, 2018 By 8 Comments
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...]
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