by Wallace Wyss - You hear carrozzeria names like "Pininfarina, "Bertone" and "Zagato" but it's difficult if you are a relative newcomer to foreign cars to remember some of the achievements of these firms--the cars that made their name. … [Read more...]
1986 Aston Martin Vantage Zagato
February 25, 2019 By 5 Comments
When two famous names worked on a car together with less than stirring results. by Wallace Wyss - With the Sixties Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato, being one of the most beautiful cars of the Sixties, ya think that any Aston done by Zagato … [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...]
Porsche 356 Zagato Carrera Speedster
December 16, 2018 By 3 Comments
by Mike - There is a rare Porsche for sale on Bring a Trailer, where they write, "This is the sixth of nine Carrera Speedsters built by Zagato in 2015 and 2016 using Porsche 356 donor cars." Wallace Wyss wrote here on My Car Quest about … [Read more...]
Bella Iso Rivolta – 2018
July 2, 2018 By 12 Comments
by Don Meluzio - The Iso Millenium Committee of the Italian City of Bresso recently had its third gathering of Isoisti in the last five years. The Committee celebrates the cars of Renzo Rivolta and his son Piero. For those of you that … [Read more...]
IsoRivolta Vision Gran Turismo Introduced by Zagato
October 26, 2017 By 4 Comments
by Mike - The famed Italian car designer, Zagato, has just introduced the IsoRivolta Vision Gran Turismo at the 2017 Tokyo Motor Show. The new Zagato creation will be a drivable vehicle in Gran Turismo Sport, the latest chapter of the acclaimed … [Read more...]
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