Alfa Brichet

A friend of Power’s discovered this Maserati 200S at a facility in Tampa where it had been sitting and notified Dale. Reasonable offer made and accepted.

By Eric Davison
Photos courtesy Dale Powers
From the Archives, December, 2016

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During the course of his automotive career Dale Powers has owned so many different great cars that he cannot recall all of them. There were Jaguars, Porsches, half a dozen Ferraris including a Daytona and a 2-litre Testa Rossa, a Kurtis, an HRG, an SS100. It would be hard to find a marque that he did not at one time own and drive. A beautiful Cisitalia cabriolet was his personal chariot for a few happy miles. [Read more…] about Dale Powers’ Fascinating Finds Part 2

1750 Alfa: An early find was this 1750 Alfa that had been brutalized with a hack saw to create cabriolet from a coupe. Powers searched for and finally found the severed top, only to come up a week short as the top had been scrapped before he was able to purchase it.

By Eric Davison
Photos courtesy Dale Powers
From the Archives, December 2016

Those of us who claim age to be an asset will remember a time when a two-year-old Ferrari was just a used up race car that had been superseded by something newer and faster and turned out to pasture. While there were not too many of them (there were not too many Ferraris of any kind in the 50s and early 60s) there were purchasing opportunities for those who had an eye for automotive excitement and were in a position to do something about those opportunities.

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