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This Fiat Jolly 600 was sold at the Barrett Jackson Auction in 2006 for over $43,000. Photo credit Barrett Jackson.
By Pete Vack
If, like Luigi in the movie CARS, a Fiat Jolly could talk, it would probably tell you, with a good hearty chuckle between each breath, the reason Jollys are so Jolly is that they have increased in value from less than nothing to considerably more than $50,000 in an amazingly short period of time. [Read more…] about Why is the Jolly so Jolly?
The Essential Buyer’s Guide: Fiat 500 & 600 Saloons/sedans, Multipla, Giardiniera & 126 1955 to 1962. By Malcolm Bobbitt. Published by Veloce Publishing Ltd. 33 Trinity Street Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1TT, England. ISBN 978-1-84584-147-8
By Pete Vack Copyright 2008
This is one of the very useful Essential Buyer’s Guides published by Veloce Publishing in the UK. In the past we have reviewed the Alfa GT Coupe guide in the same series.
[Read more…] about Book Review: Fiat 500/600 Buyer’s Guide
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24 Hours of LeMans
The class winning Risi Ferrari 430GT of Salo, Bruni and Melo leads through the midnight hours.
Richard Prince was at this year’s Le Mans and came back with some great images of the Ferraris and Lamborghinis in the GT class. [Read more…] about Ferrari and Lamborghini at LeMans
Ferrari Does it in France
Massa does it.
by Erik C. Nielsen
Photos courtesy and copyright Ferrari Media
If there was significant concern amongst the Ferrari faithful regarding the Scuderia’s performance in Canada, all of that was washed down with a decent red wine in central France during this weekend’s French Grand Prix. [Read more…] about French Grand Prix
Ferrari Racing Days Paul Ricard (May 30th, June 1st 2008)
1954 Maserati 250 F (winner of grid A races).
Photos and Captions by Alessandro Gerelli
This year the event included the Ferrari Challenge (Italy and Europe), the Ferrari Shell Historic Challenge and the F1 Ferrari Clienti program. [Read more…] about Ferrari Racing Days 2008
Story and photos by Brandy Elitch
The CG was made in both coupe and spyder configurations, but this spyder was recently spotted at the Retro show.
The CG was a derivative of the Simca 1000 sedan, a very successful small four-door sedan manufactured from 1961-1978, with 2 million cars sold.
[Read more…] about CG: The Original Anti-Alpine
Photos and captions by Alessandro Gerelli
The harbor area is the broadest part of the track and where there are stands, garages and the pits.
Our Italian correspondent, Alessandro Gerelli, arrived in Monaco a week after the Grand Prix. He found that there was still a great deal of work going on to remove the race barriers and structures after the 2008 Grand Prix of Monaco. [Read more…] about Monaco, the morning after…
By Bart Kleyn
Richard Wijnschenk and Henny Wijnschenk in an Alfa Romeo Gulia Spider on the Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso.
For the past few years via-flaminia.com has been running a low key, highly scenic and by all accounts thoroughly enjoyable tour through Italy. This year on May 23rd thirty- five classic cars from seven countries assembled in Dusseldorf for the fourth Via Flaminia Tour. The entrants load their cars on the train for a trip to Verona for the start of the first leg of the event. [Read more…] about Via Flaminia Tour 2008
Story and Photos by Roberto Motta
The subject of this article, this Alfa T33/2, is owned by Marco Cajani.
This Alfa Romeo T33/2 is powered by the two-litre Alfa Romeo V8, still with its original 240 horsepower and in its original 1967 European
Mountain Championship configuration. It is the first of the tipo, and the 33 TT SC12 Turbo was the last.
[Read more…] about Alfa Romeo T33/2, Chassis 001
Photos by Roberto Motta and Automobilismo Storico Alfa Romeo, Centro Documentazione (Arese, Milano)
Roberto Motta has already presented the story of the first Alfa Romeo T33 (1967, chassis 75033.001 ) in a previous article. Here he inspects the last of the breed, the Turbo 33 as raced for the last time in Hockeneim on October 9th 1977.
[Read more…] about Alfa Romeo 33SC 12 Turbo Last of the T33s
Alfa Romeo Tipo 33, The Development and Racing History by Peter Collins and Ed McDonough
2006, Veloce Publishing Limited, Dorchester, England,
ISBN 1-904788-71-8 $79.95 USD
By Pete Vack
A Brief History
The Alfa Romeo T33 was Alfa’s most successful post-war sports race car, yet perhaps the most frustrating for both Autodelta and Alfa race fans. Its ten year life spanned a huge variety of changes in race car technology, safety, and race track venues, and perhaps most significantly, dozens of rule changes deemed by the FIA. [Read more…] about Book Review: Alfa Romeo T33