by Wallace Wyss - Through the years I've looked at thousands of pictures of Italian cars. Some images stuck in my head. Like the one-off Titania, not only the unusual name (Titanic? Named after titanium?) but because of the shape, I always … [Read more...]
Innovation In Collector Car Auctions – The Alfa Romeo B.A.T. Cars
October 21, 2020 By 9 Comments
Alfa Romeo Berlina Aerodinamica Tecnica (B.A.T.) by Mike Gulett - The three Alfa Romeo B.A.T. cars will be auctioned as a set on October 28, 2020 in New York at the RM Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction. It is innovative that … [Read more...]
Apollo GTs For Sale – Six of Them!
June 23, 2019 By 17 Comments
by Mike Gulett - The Apollo GT was an American made sports car produced and sold by International Motor Cars from 1962 to 1964 in Oakland, California. The Apollo project was the dream of Milt Brown and Newt Davis, who wanted to build an American … [Read more...]
The Intermeccanica Italia: Has It Been Too Long Ignored?
April 8, 2019 By 137 Comments
Another case where a hybrid (European chassis and body with American power) was slow to appreciate. by Wallace Wyss - Founder Frank Reisner was a Hungarian born engineer who, although he had a good job in Canada, that had nothing to do with … [Read more...]
Porsche’s Italian Adventure – The Porsche 356 Abarth Carrera GT/L
December 26, 2018 By 6 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - The Porsche family were Austrians. They were doing pretty well developing race cars in the early ‘50s, especially the mid-engined Porsche 550 Spyder, but it bothered them that a fellow Austrian, Carlo Abarth, working in Italy, … [Read more...]
Our Resident Historian Reveals An Obsession With Porsche “Turtle “ Cars
April 9, 2017 By 3 Comments
by Richard Bartholomew - "I suspect Ferdinand Porsche, as a boy in the 1800s, had a pet turtle," says Wallace Wyss, writer, who is presently hip-deep in research for the reprinting of the revised Porsche 356 Photo Album book. “The first … [Read more...]
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