Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona Sqaureback by Panther Westwinds chassis 15275
Photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt
I wanted to sell our old Suburban, but I haven’t sold a car in years, and so someone told me to go to Facebook and look up groups on Chevy Suburban ‘Squarebacks’. And sure enough, that’s what the call them nowadays, Squarebacks, a term that presumably can be applied to just about anything with a square back. Ok, I get it. I’m not so square after all.
And I guess we could all go with the new lingo, and call an Aston Martin Shooting Brake a ‘Squareback’, as well as an Alfa Giardinetta, a Volvo P1800, a hearse, a panel truck, etc. Cool. So, on the heels of Graham Gauld’s piece on the Chinetti Ferrari Squareback last week, we asked Hugues Vanhoolandt what he might have on things that looked like Squarebacks. He began with the Italians, and offered up some rare Lancias, Fiat and Alfa Giardinettas…none of which were ever imported to the U.S., and therefore are very rare here. Then Vanhoolandt shifts gears and digs up Shooting Brakes from the UK and Italy, right up to the present day.
All, of course, are Squarebacks, at least if one believes Facebook. [Ed.]
Alfa Romeo Giulia Giardinetta
Alfa Romeo Giulia Giardinetta
Alfa Romeo Giulia Giardinetta
Alfa Romeo Giulia Giardinetta Portello
Alfa Romeo Giulia Giardinetta Portello
Fiat 1100 Giardinetta Viotti
Fiat 1100 Giardinetta Viotti
Fiat 1100 Giardinetta Viotti
Fiat 1100/103 TV Giardinetta Viotti
Fiat 1100/103 TV Giardinetta Viotti
Lancia Appia Giardinetta
Lancia Appia Giardinetta
Lancia Appia Giardinetta carrozzeria Riva
Lancia Aurelia B51 Giardinetta Viotti
Lancia Aurelia B51 Giardinetta Viotti
Lancia Aurelia B53 Giardinetta Viotti
Lancia Aurelia B53 Giardinetta Viotti
Lancia Aurelia B53 Giardinetta Viotti
Lancia Aurelia B53 Giardinetta Viotti
Aston Martin DB5 Shooting Brake chassis DB5/1411/R
Aston Martin DB5 Shooting Brake Radford DB5/2273/L
Aston Martin DB6 Mk I Shooting Brake Radford DB6/S/2688/L
Aston Martin Lagonda Shooting Brake chassis 13533
Aston Martin Shooting Brake Zagato chassis 13875
Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Shooting Brake chassis 54490 (#12/99)
Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Shooting Brake chassis 54533
Jaguar XJS Shooting Brake conversion
Maserati Bellagio Fastback Shooting Brake Touring Superleggera
Rolls-Royce ‘Silver Spectre’ shooting brake by Carat Duchatelet
Does my 2011 Subaru Impreza qualify as a ‘shooting brake’, then?
Surely that 2 door Appia by Viotti is a hearse, rather than a Giardinetta? All interesting, some better resolved than others! Thanks for this article
Missed the Jensen Healy GT., Volvo P1800ES.
Ahh, the endless “what is it?” question. In the US I’m not at all sure about this “squareback” designation. Of the cars in the pictures some of them are what I would call panel trucks. Anything with wooden panels, real or fake, is a station wagon. Some of those Aston Martin “shooting brakes” are stretching the definition. Some are not. My own private classification system involves three and five door boxes. I detest the commonly used SUV designation. Sport ain’t in it.