The response to the Alfa in search of a chassis was so helpful that our French collector sent another mystery Alfa for our readers to solve. Surely someone in Europe or the U.S. might remember this chop job…who would forget this attempt make a sow’s ear out of a silk purse. Here is all we know:
VeloceToday for November 17, 2015
Past and Present Alfa Part 3: Final Details
Photos by David Gooley
Final Details
With the mechanicals completed and the chassis painted, the body sections were installed and final prep began. The location of head lights and taillights were determined, and the modifications made to front and rear fenders. To keep the front-end design as clean as possible, turn signal fixtures were installed in the head light buckets. With the headlight buckets welded in place, weeks of aligning, filling, and sanding followed until a coat of primer could be applied. In this state, devoid of any distracting trim pieces, the virgin bodylines could be evaluated for balance, proportion, and overall conformation.
Pfister and the Yellow Crayola Ferrari
“The Yellow Crayola Ferrari Enzo” was the last and one of the best articles submitted to VeloceToday by Werner Pfister, who died in March, 2013 after a battle with cancer. His story about a Crayon Ferrari crafted by a renowned artist for a Children’s hospital reminded us of Werner’s keen eye for an interesting story as well as his generosity and kindness.
Inset, Werner Pfister by Stanley Cohen.
Farina’s Jupiter Symphony
Ango-Italian of the rarest order: The Farina Jupiter, one of four built.
By Pete Vack, Pat Lockyer and Edmund Nankivell
Recently a rare Stablimenti Farina-bodied Jowett Jupiter came to our attention. It is particularly charming, and based on a very advanced British chassis, at a time when British chassis were not particularly advanced.
As Found Classic Number Seventeen
A body in search of a chassis.
A mystery in Italy, France and anywhere there might be an Alfa SZ without its original body. A VeloceToday reader and collector from TrustClassics in Bar le Duc, France, sent these photos of a front and back section of an Alfa SZ.
Keno Brothers offers Werner Pfister Collection and More
Beginning tomorrow, November 18th, The Rolling Sculpture 2015 will take place in NYC. The first event is a symposium, then auctions including the collection of Werner Pfister and finally an automobile auction. Read below for details and click to go the auction’s websites. [Read more…] about Keno Brothers offers Werner Pfister Collection and More
VeloceToday for November 10, 2015
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Past and Present Alfa Part 2
In Part 1 Restoration expert Alex Bacon begins a project to create a 1950s era-Sports Racer based on Alfa 2600 components. After completing the chassis the body is now taking shape.
Photos courtesy Alex Bacon
Next came a classic use of CAD-derived inspiration; CAD, meaning Cardboard Aided Design, in which cardboard templates are cut for front fenders, hood, cowl, doors, rear fenders, and trunk to quickly simulate the body shape. The cardboard templates were revised multiple times until a satisfactory shape was achieved. Plywood forms fashioned from the cardboard templates were installed to provide references for body panels and the locations for the small diameter tubing to support them.
The initial template for the rear section is place over the frame.
The Brighton Run, 2015
Brown Brother of London offered Tricycles and a light steam car. However as they did not have any manufactures premises, they offered the American Whitney as the Brown Whitney and also some cars made by Star. This Quadricycle, entered by Mr. David Oakley, hails from 1899 and is powered by a 2.25 cylinder engine.
Story and Photos by Jonathan Sharp
November 1st, 2015
The sun came out and it was lovely and warm in Brighton today. Not the usual weather for the London to Brighton Run. It is November but this year there was a blazing sun and I needed a sun blocker. My first memory of the event is watching the cars pass from the side windows of my father’s Austin 1300 whilst parked on the A23 just outside of Brighton; it was usually raining. Sunday the 1st November, 2015 will go down in the weather history books as being the hottest November day in Great Britain for 70 years. [Read more…] about The Brighton Run, 2015
Dino 246GT Brochures
In our continued tribute to the 50th birthday of the Dino 246GT, we went to files and brought out two important factory brochures. Our first Dino brochure is listed as:
No. 40/70 Printed in Italy Poligrafici il Borgo San Lazzaro di Savena (Bologna) and probably one of the earliest brochures made for the production 246 series.
The Joys of Genevieve
Genevieve arrives in Brighton, 2015. Photo by Jonathan Sharp.
By Pete Vack
We wonder if there is something like a natural aversion to Veteran cars – those antiques made before 1904. After all, the Brighton Run aside, there are no weekly vintage car events held in their honor, no shows, no races, and the few that still exist are hidden in dark corners of museums and collections.* Perhaps it is because they are sooo ancient, so upright, so open, so slow, why they could even be thought of as carriages without horses! Can a true car nut really get into these, these horseless carriages? [Read more…] about The Joys of Genevieve