The first Vega FV1 came off the lines in 1955 and, compared to the prototype, was slightly longer to increase space in the rear, and had a more powerful V8 engine giving it adequate performance. Destiny can offer moments of joy but also of deep sadness, sometimes bringing people together by making them participate in … More Facel: The Fall of a Star
The resulting car was officially presented on August 26, 1959, introducing a way of conceiving the car which was completely different from other examples of the period, and the Mini was so modern that it remained the benchmark for ten years. The article I am about to offer you here is certainly a bit of … More Alec’s Mini
The car’s body was originally designed by Caproni technicians, but the definitive car was designed by Nuccio Bertone’s Carrozzeria. On the Italian automotive scene there have been marques which existed for only a short period of time and of which little is known any more: CEMSA-Caproni is one of them. Caproni was an active company … More Revenge with Flavia
In 1954 the protagonist of our article, the Isabella, appeared. This car was the marque’s biggest hit, but was sadly also the final model it built. Carl Friedrich Borgward’s adventure in the field of car manufacturing began in Bremen in 1921. From the beginning the young Carl, passionate about cars (and locksmiths), worked on the … More Isabella: The swansong.
The car was compact: in fact it was just 3.79 metres long, completely out of sync with the whole American automotive landscape, where in the early 1950s cars were getting progressively bigger and more powerful. Nash was an automobile manufacturer active from 1916 to 1954, the year in which it merged with Hudson to form … More Little America
The car was sold in kit form, common in those days to avoid the Purchase Tax from which such unassembled cars were exempt. The car manufacturing adventure of the Welsh Gilbern began in 1959 with the co-operation between Giles Smith and Bernard Friese, a German engineer with experience in glass-fibre. Their first car was the … More Kit car passion
Despite its small size the vehicle offered four seats, whilst the mechanicals were all at the back, with the engine, gearbox and drive placed over the rear axle. The history of Glas began in 1883 in Pilsting, Germany, when Andreas Glas founded a company to make agricultural machinery. After the Second World War Andreas’s son, … More From agriculture to cars
The DAF brand is still active in the trucks sector today, whilst the car division has been inactive for many years and, in this article, we will talk about the first car model produced by the brand. Starting from the beginning, DAF was founded in 1928 by brothers Hubertus and Win van Doorne and for … More One of a kind
In 1953 a collaboration with the engineer Fritz Fend gave rise to the production of a small three-wheeled car called the Kabinroller. Willy Messerschmitt started his activities in the technical office of Bayerische Flugzeugwerke AG, out of which grew Messerschmitt AG at the end of the 1930s, production activity always being linked to the military … More From the sky to the road
This original and non-conformist solution led Zündapp to choose the name Janus, from Giano, the Roman god depicted as two-faced with one face looking forwards and the other looking behind. The history of the Zündapp marque began in 1917 in Nuremberg and was always linked to the world of two-wheeled vehicles, but twice the company … More The little push-me-pull-you car
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