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Microcars swarm the Big Apple
Most times when we take in the New York International Auto Show, we’re used to seeing a few token “heritage” models from the automakers on display to celebrate some sort of anniversary. No luck this...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1968 Fiat Dino
From driving an Italian coupe at full song up mountainous spine of Vermont Route 100 (or similar) instead of sitting in the office department comes this well-preserved 1968 Fiat Dino coupe. The...
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Fiats to star in the Little Car Show
Monterey can be a little overwhelming, what with all the majestic Full Classics dominating show fields, the exotics lining the streets, and the bewildering array of auctions all taking place at once....
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Brio, with two wheels and four
I’ll leave it to someone else to suggest that Monterey week be redubbed Hershey West, but I’m starting to seriously think that you can find just about anything there at some point. Here’s an example...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1960 Fiat Multipla
We can think of far worse things to do than driving this 1960 Fiat Multipla for sale on Hemmings.com around Costa Mesa, California. As long as you didn’t have to do high velocity battle with...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1968 Moretti GS16
With its Dino-look front end, this 1968 Moretti GS16 for sale on Hemmings.com certainly looks much more sporty and Italian than the Fiat 125 it was based on, all the more fitting for its 125...
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Seventeen-year-old automotive student to lead London to Brighton Run
Britain’s passage of the Locomotives on the Highway Act 115 years ago might have passed quietly into the history books, if it hadn’t been for a few dozen enthusiasts who took part in a celebratory...
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San Jose, California, 1966
Now that the Nuevo Fiat Cinquecento has made it to these shores, one might presume this would be the first time anyone has seen Fiats and Dodges sharing the same dealership lot, but as we see from...
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Miniature Maranello masterpiece
It’s logical that when you make replicas of cars that could hold their own in a museum case, creating the truck that would have hauled them around has the potential to be spectacular. Mark McCourt was...
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Sampling Carlo’s accomplishments
It was more than a year ago now we dove into Chrysler’s media site and mined a few vintage Fiat 500 photos, and now we see that Chrysler’s gone and added a few more of interest, mostly focused on...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1951 Fiat 500 Giardiniera
While you’re in Scottsdale this weekend, perhaps you’ll want to stop by to check out this 1951 Fiat 500 Giardiniera woodie station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com. It looks to be mostly complete, with...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1939 Fiat 508C
The Germany-based seller of this 1939 Fiat 508C pickup on Hemmings.com believes it was converted into a pickup when it was new, though we could certainly believe that it was converted during the war...
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Virgil Exner Jr.’s Simca Special headed for another run across the auction block
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions By now most people observing the collector car auction scene should know the story of Virgil Exner Jr.’s Simca Special; it has, after all, made at least a couple of...
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Driving Impression: Fiat X1/9
I’ve had the opportunity to drive two examples of the Fiat X1/9. A couple of years ago, when I met up with Kevin Barnett in Charlotte, North Carolina, to photograph his Fiat X1/9 (well, actually a...
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Four-Links – Terraplane pickup, Larz Anderson Fiat, mystery Mini racer, Le...
* One of Jesse the justacarguy’s more recent finds is this 1934 Terraplane sedan converted into a pickup. So many neat details here. * Our friend David Greenlees at The Old Motor has been trusted by...
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Four-Links – Fiat Turbina, highway hi-fi, Ford Styling tour, coachbuilt 914
* If you’re going to develop a gas-turbine car, it had better look like it came from a Buck Rogers future. Fiat covered that base with its tri-turbine 1954 Turbina, profiled this week on Fuel...
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Gerion: Molsheim by way of Girona, via the Sunset Strip
During a recent trip to southwestern Montana, I was introduced to a friendly and enthusiastic car guy named Gregory Smart. I’d taken note of an early 1970s Volkswagen for sale at his home, and after...
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Carroll Shelby’s Cobra transporter heads to auction
Photos by Neil Fraser, courtesy RM Auctions. For the sake of brevity, we’ve actually left quite a bit of significant history out of the headline for this story on the 1956 Fiat Series 306/2 Grand Prix...
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On old car safari around the Mediterranean
After much success car-spotting in Italy during the last Hemmings Mediterranean cruise four years ago (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, addendum, Prince of Monaco’s collection), I expected this year’s...
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Under 30: Sam Richardson’s 1972 Fiat Campagnola
Earlier this year, we started to hand out Under 30 awards at our cruise nights to recognize and encourage youth in the hobby who bring their cars out to Hemmings events. Almost immediately we...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1937 Fiat 500A
Incomplete restoration projects can often be more trouble than they’re worth, but this 1937 Fiat 500A for sale on Hemmings.com has its body and paint work completed and rolls, which gives it a leg up...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1933 Fiat 508S Balilla
Unfortunately, it’s not known whether this 1933 Fiat 508S Balilla Mille Miglia Spyder for sale on Hemmings.com actually competed in the event it’s named for, but the seller of this competition variant...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1969 Fiat Shellette
Summer can’t come soon enough, especially not now that we’ve seen this 1969 Fiat Shellette for sale on Hemmings.com, a perfect car for cruising the beaches and soaking up the warm weather. What it’s...
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An overlooked and poorly branded classic – the Fiat Dino Spider
Photo by David LaChance. Fiat introduced the Dino Spider in 1966 at the Turin Motor Show and the Fiat Dino Coupe a year later at the Geneva Motor Show. The 2-liter V-6 engine was designed by Ferrari...
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Four-Links – Toronado styling, electric BMW, Seagrave’s car, monster Fiat...
* Over on Dean’s Garage, GM stylist Dick Ruzzin shared his memories – and some photos and sketches – from the genesis of the Oldsmobile Toronado, which was designed and developed alongside the Buick...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1974 Fiat 500R
Anybody looking for a “car of the people” from across the Atlantic will certainly have choices. British car fans will gravitate to the classic Mini, German car fans will be drawn to the Volkswagen...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1972 Fiat 124 Spider
Though Fiat 124 Spiders are not exactly uncommon in the Hemmings classifieds, many are high-mileage cars painted red that need a bit of TLC to return to road-worthiness. If you’ve got a taste for an...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1969 Fiat 500 Giardiniera
The concept behind Fiat’s latest 500 variant for the United States market, the plus-sized 500L, is nothing new. Three years after the original Fiat 500 debuted in 1957, the Italian automaker...
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Four-Links – Jaray’s Audi, first fiberglass Jeep, on colorized photos,...
* While recently attending a car show in the U.K., Heath Scotchford of The Petrol Stop came across the above replica of the “Ugly Duckling” Audi, a car notable not just for its ravishing good looks,...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1967 Fiat Abarth 1000 OTR coupe
Between 1949 and 1971, Abarth was the name to be feared in the world of small-displacement racing. Carlo Abarth’s cars captured 5,000 outright or class victories, which helped to sell a lot of...
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Gallery: Italian masterpieces at Concorso Italiano
Alfa Romeos on display at the 2014 Concorso Italiano. Photos by author. For lovers of Italian automobiles, a visit to Concorso Italiano, held annually during Car Week, may be reason enough to book a...
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End of an era at Ferrari: Montezemolo out; Marchionne steps in
Luca di Montezemolo. Photos courtesy Ferrari Media. Since Enzo Ferrari’s passing in 1988, no one single man has been more influential to the company, both on the race track and in the showroom, than...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1979 Fiat X1/9
If you’re looking for an Italian mid-engined sports car that won’t clean out the savings account, the Fiat X1/9 is a great car to consider. This 1979 Fiat X1/9, for sale on Hemmings.com, comes from a...
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Fiat Set to Spin Off Ferrari via IPO; Marchionne to Remain in Charge
Photos by author. If there were any questions regarding Sergio Marchionne’s intention’s with Ferrari, the cat, er, prancing horse, is now out of the bag. Long on debt, short on cash and attempting to...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1967 Fiat Jolly
Sometimes, less is more, and that was certainly the case with the Ghia-built Fiat Jolly. Despite the Jolly’s spartan wicker seats, cloth top (complete with fringe) and absence of glass (aside from the...
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After a 100-year slumber, the Beast of Turin comes to life
The Beast of Turin comes to life. Photos courtesy Stefan Marjoram. In the early days of motor racing, there really was no replacement for displacement. Going faster meant constructing ever larger...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1978 Fiat 124 Spider
Compact convertibles from foreign manufacturers once dotted the American landscape, but today have largely vanished from sight (Mazda’s beloved Miata excepted). Once plentiful in the classified...
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Fiat moves toward reviving the 124
Earlier this month, Alfa Romeo CEO Harald Wester confirmed rumors that there would be no Alfa Romeo Spider based on the new Mazda MX-5 Miata, despite a 2012 agreement between the two automakers; FCA...
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Four-Links – Fiats by any other name, search and sketch, digital dashes, a...
* Rear-engined Fiats were plentiful and simple. So no surprise that plenty of coachbuilders and low-volume manufacturers based their cars, trucks, and even jeeplets on the chassis. Ronan Glon at...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1971 Fiat 850 Berlina
So there’s a little rust on this 1971 Fiat 850 Berlina for sale on Hemmings.com, it has a smashed windshield, and its engine has been all torn down. That just means it’s a good starting point for a...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1958 Fiat 600 Multipla
From the photos, it appears this little 1958 Fiat 600 Multipla for sale on Hemmings.com has seen little to no use since its restoration, or at least has been treated to extensive cleanings after every...
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Vintage racing team in a box: One of three Formula 1 Scarabs to cross the...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Lance Reventlow’s Formula 1 effort – which campaigned front-engine cars at a time when the rest of the world switched away from that layout – was pretty much doomed from the...
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Four-Links – restoring the Reventlow/Shelby transporter, Michelotti Lem, last...
Don Orosco’s re-creation of one of the three Scarab Formula 1 cars is certainly impressive, but the restoration of the Bartoletti-bodied Fiat transporter that hauled the cars is monumental....
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1968 Fiat 125
As square as it looks (if it were any boxier, it’d have square wheels), this 1968 Fiat 125 for sale on Hemmings.com has the potential to make for a fun driveable dream with its manual transmission,...
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Lane Museum to celebrate “Macchine Italiane – A Tour of Italy’s Motoring Spirit”
1976 Lamborghini Urraco P300. Photos by Wes Duenkel, courtesy Lane Motor Museum, unless otherwise noted. Italy has long had a love affair with motoring (on four wheels or two), as demonstrated by...
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Unrestored Abarth speed record car could command more than $1 million
Photos by Piotr Degler/Degler Studio, courtesy Gooding and Co. At first glance, the Abarth 1000 Bialbero record car known as “La Principessa” and the diamond-layout Pininfarina X appear to have...
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Finding the farthest-flung Fiats
Photo courtesy FCA. After our recent-ish story on the end of Zastava, we got to thinking which Fiat model was most successful not necessarily in its home market, but abroad, built under license or...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1964 Abarth 850 TC replica
1964 Abarth 850 TC replica for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: replica ex-Coppa Mille racer with Autobianchi A112 70HP engine, dual wishbone front suspension, fiberglass doors and...
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Behind the wheel: The 2017 Fiat 124 Spider Lusso
2017 Fiat 124 Spider. Photos by author. Fiat hasn’t sold a compact roadster in the U.S. market since 1982, or 1985 if you count the Pininfarina-badged variant of the 124 Sport Spider. That changes in...
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Padua’ Auto E Moto D’Epoca: Italy’s best classic car show, born out of a...
Text and photos by Matteo Giacon. [Editor’s Note: Most of you will probably know him as italianiron, a frequent commenter on our carspotting posts. But Matteo Giacon is more than just a carspotting...
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