If this next Fiat 850 Sport Spider looks really good to you, it is not a mistake. The seller has taken a different approach in his four-year restoration where he backdated/de-regulated the external looks to give us something closer to the original Bertone shape and it looks amazing. Find this 1969 Fiat 850 Sport Spider […]
This started life as a Ferrari Mondial 8, Ferrari’s mid-engine 2+2 coupe and the relatively practical member of the family — four seats, decent luggage space, and the same basic transverse V8 layout lineage as the 308. The original Ferrari V8 and transaxle are gone, replaced with a Cadillac Northstar 32-valve V8 and its matching […]
The Volvo 780 is what happens when Volvo hands its fundamentally rectangular 700-series sedan to Bertone in Turin and asks them to make it look expensive. The result is still clearly a Volvo, but every panel from the windshield back seems to have spent a semester abroad at an Italian finishing school. Unlike the earlier […]
The Chrysler TC by Maserati is one of the strangest things you’ll ever find on the road. It looks like a Chrysler LeBaron because it was built on the same K-Car platform…technically a shortened Dodge Daytona chassis. The body panels were stamped in Turin, the assembly was done at Maserati’s Milan plant, so this car […]
Our next car will require a resourceful buyer, semi-deep pocketbooks, and a leap of faith…because this oddball Aerodeck is located in the Adriatic seaside village of Pesaro, Italy. We’re not in Kansas anymore, Doretta. However, it will be the only Honda Accord Aerodeck at your local Cars and Coffee because these things are unobtanium in […]
Our next car is a bright-red Alfa family sedan with twin-cam power, rear transaxle balance, De Dion suspension, and enough exotic engineering underneath to make its modest horsepower almost irrelevant. One hundred and twenty horsepower comes from Alfa’s 2.0-liter DOHC twin-cam inline-four, and drives the rear wheels through that rear-mounted 5-speed transaxle. Good stuff. Find […]
Our next feature is an Alfa Romeo 164L, the luxury-oriented version of Alfa’s Pininfarina-styled flagship sedan—and one of the last genuinely uncommon Italian executive cars officially sold in America. The 164 was based on the “Type Four” family of front-wheel-drive executive cars developed alongside the Saab 9000, Lancia Thema and Fiat Croma; but only the […]
This is an Alfa Romeo Milano, the U.S.-market version of the Alfa Romeo 75, which means it started life as a very strange and very cool transaxle Alfa sedan. But today’s Milano is even more bonkers — with an LS1 V8 swap that makes 600 horsepower and is connected to a T56 manual gearbox. It […]
This next car comes as a tip from Cory who writes: Hard to find a more funky entertaining driver for the money. This black Quadrifoglio has miles, stories, cosmetic needs, and rebuilt major bits, which is exactly the kind of résumé you expect from a cheap Alfa. Find this 1988 Alfa Romeo Milano 3.0 offered […]
The 425i comes from Maserati’s Biturbo era, when the brand was building compact, twin-turbo sedans that were fast enough to go 185, when you could lose your license, and now you can’t drive. It looks restrained on the surface, but the dogleg manual and boosted V6 underneath remind you this is still very much an […]