by Wallace Wyss - Ferrari has always built special models for special customers. But they formalized it a few years back by starting a special group to build cars to order. For this latest one they called back a one time dominant … [Read more...]
The Bespoke Ferrari Station Wagon: Forever Wandering The Earth, Will It Ever Find Love?
June 7, 2016 By 4 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - Some new to Ferraris think the FF was the first "station wagon" shape applied to a Ferrari. By the factory, yes, but there's been others by other coachbuilders. One I recall is back in the Sixties, there was a perfectly good … [Read more...]
The 2008 Rolls Royce Hyperion
May 10, 2016 By 5 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - Don’t fret, you can still order your next Rolls with your own body design Back in 2008, I saw something at Pebble Beach I didn’t think I would see anymore—a coachbuilt Rolls Royce. A new coachbuilt Rolls Royce, not … [Read more...]
The Cadillac Allante: There Was Many A Slip Twixt The Cup And The Lip On The Way To An All-Italian Design For GM….
April 22, 2016 By 5 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - William L. Mitchell was the heir apparent to General Motors' first director of design, Harley Earl. Mitchell had the same sort of showmanship as his former boss, even dressed the same, and, like Earl, even drove one-off … [Read more...]
The Ferrari In The Lake
April 14, 2016 By 2 Comments
Yes, it's a multi-million dollar car now, but it's how it got there that's the story... by Wallace Wyss - I suppose some Ferrari owners are what we middle class kids used to call “snooty.” One of the snootiest I ever met was a TV producer … [Read more...]
The Only Steel Bodied Corvette – The 1963 Corvette Rondine
December 15, 2015 By 5 Comments
by Mike - The Corvette Rondine is a prototype commissioned by the Italian coach builder Pininfarina and was displayed at the 1963 Paris Auto Show. Pininfarina is best known as the designer of most Ferrari models over the past few … [Read more...]
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