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This jewel of the 1960s was seen in La Morra, a lovely town in the wine growing region of Piedmont, Italy. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588

Seen this gorgeous 1962 Chevrolet Corvette while I was walking to Canary Wharf. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588

This Fiat 131 has been driven by Walter Rohrl.  Seen in Turin, Italy, at the Fiat Mirafiori Motor Village. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588

Back in the days when Italian cars were winning the World Rally Championships, the Fiat 131 was leaving everybody behind. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588

This car was the first mass production model with front wheel drive. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588 Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588 The Citroën Traction Avant is an executive car produced by the French manufacturer Citroën from 1934 to 1957. About 760,000 units were produced. The Traction Avant, French for front-wheel drive, was designed by André Lefèbvre and Flaminio Bertoni in late 1933 / early 1934. While not the first production front wheel drive car (Alvis built the 1928 FWD in the UK, Cord produced the L29 from 1929 to 1932 in the United States and DKW the F1 in 1931 in Germany) it was the world's first front-wheel drive steel unitary body frame production car. Along with DKW's 1930s models, the Traction pioneered front-wheel drive on the European mass car market. The Traction Avant's structure was a welded unitary body / chassis. Most other...

Pretty Little White Thing Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588 In response to Lancia's rallying success with the mid-engined Stratos, Renault's Jean Terramorsi, vice-president of production, asked Bertone’s Marc Deschamps to design a new sports version of the Renault 5 Alpine supermini. The distinctive new rear bodywork was styled by Marcello Gandini at Bertone. Although the standard Renault 5 has a front-mounted engine, the 5 Turbo featured a mid-mounted 1397 cc Cléon-Fonte turbocharged engine placed behind the driver in mid-body in a modified Renault 5 chassis. In standard form, the engine developed 160 metric horsepower.  Though it used a modified body from a standard Renault 5, and was badged a Renault 5, the mechanicals were radically different, the most obvious difference being rear-wheel drive and rear-mid-engined instead of the normal version's front-wheel drive and front-mounted engine. At the time ...

This is not one a famous classic Lancia but it is one of the best looking, and the design is still modern today. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588 Cars from the first series, which were produced from 1975 to 1978, were known as Lancia Beta Montecarlos and those from the second series, produced from 1980 to 1981, simply as Lancia Montecarlos. In both cases Montecarlo was spelled as one word, unlike Monte Carlo in the Principality of Monaco. Both series were offered in Coupé and Spider versions, the latter featuring a unique roll-back manually operated targa style convertible top. The Spider was sold in the United States as the Lancia Scorpion during 1976 and 1977. Total production numbers come to 7,798 units, with production spanning from 1974 until 1982 with an interruption in 1979. 3,558 first series and 817 second series targas were built; 2,080 first series and 1,123 second series coupés.

Before the Delta Integrale and the Lancia Rally there was the Lancia Fulvia HF and she was winning rallies everywhere. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588

One of the nicest mall spider cars ever built. Seen in Turin at  "Heart and Carburetor" meeting. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588 The Fiat 124 Sport Spider is a 2+2 convertible sports car marketed by FIAT from 1966 to 1980 – having debuted at the November 1966 Turin Auto Show. Designed and manufactured by Italian carrozzeria Pininfarina, Fiat and Pininfarina continued to market the monocoque-bodied car as the 2000 Spider from 1979 to 1982. Pininfarina itself assumed the car's marketing from 1983 to the end of its production in 1985 – as the Pininfarina Spider Azzura. The car was sold in Europe and the U.S. from its introduction until the 1975 model year when it was modified to comply with new U.S. regulations and no European version was produced. Sales in Europe resumed when Pininfarina took over production in 1983 under the name Pininfarina Europa Spider. The body of the car was designed and marke...

Lovely old BMW seen in Turin at "Cuore e Carburatore" meeting if classic cars. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588 The BMW New Six CS (internal name BMW E9) was a two-door coupé built for BMW by Karmann from 1968 to 1975. It was developed from the New Class-based BMW 2000 CS coupé, which was enlarged to hold the BMW M30 straight-6 engine used in the E3 sedan. The E9 platform, especially the 3.0 CSL homologation special, was very successful in racing, especially in European Touring Car Championship and the Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft. This helped to establish BMW's status as a sporty driver's car. BMW 2800CS The first of the E9 coupés, the 2800 CS, replaced the 2000 C and 2000 CS in 1968. The wheelbase and length were increased to allow the engine bay to be long enough to accommodate the new straight-six engine code-named M30, and the front of the car was restyled to resemble the E3 sedan....

This jewel was seen at the Heart & Carburetor meeting in Turin, Italy. Please see also my YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/user/settime2588