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The Action Never Stops In This Town: Italian Machinery Invades Alameda


October is generally the warmest month here by the Bay, so that's when you get the big car shows on the island. On Saturday, Park Street was taken over by hundreds of chromium-dipped chariots; the following day, a horde of Ferraris, Fiats, Lancias, Alfas, and the like swarmed across the bridges and set up shop on the soccer field of the junior high school at which I was forced to learn "The Hustle" in P.E. class, circa 1979. Sadly, the LeMons-veteran Ecurie Ecrappe Alfa wasn't there, but the presence of such jewels as a Fiat 2100 wagon, supercharged Lancia Scorpion, and SEAT 850 compensated somewhat. Jump, jump, and see all the purty cars!

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1:45 PM on Tue Oct 14 2008
By Murilee Martin
994 views, 30 comments

Latest by MadHungarian: @Bad Juju: You and me both! I just returned to my east coast home from 5 days in the East more »

found on ebay

Monster Fiat: What Would Carrozzeria Bertone Think?

When you're in Tennessee and you have a Fiat X-1/9 parked next to a Ford F350, what do you do? Why, you combine them, of course! This 351M-powered creation needs some work to be a reliable daily driver (the brakes don't work, the fuel is kept in an old air tank, the engine runs badly because it's "cold natured" and so on), but the seller makes it clear that this Monster X-1/350 is a "real head turner." We'd have to agree with that statement, and (given that $1,001 didn't meet the reserve price) we think it should be possible to make an offer this guy won't refuse. Thanks to Fliffknight and a whole slew of others for this one!

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8:00 AM on Wed Oct 8 2008
By Murilee Martin
5,879 views, 51 comments

Latest by dohcspit: I fully approve. However, to be perfect it needs a 5th wheel in the back. more »

meadowbrook concours d'elegance

EXCLUSIVE: Alfa Romeo Bertone BAT 11 Concept Makes North American Debut!

The Alfa Romeo Bertone BAT 11 may have evaded our lenses when it made an off-site debut at the Geneva Auto Show last March, but not this time. Now we've got the first live shots of the BAT 11 on American soil. The artfully-designed car was revealed today at the press event ahead of this weekend's 2008 Meadow Brook Concours D'Elegance. What's most impressive about this already amazing-to-look-at design concept is it's actually being considered for very limited production. Sounds totally plausible — it's built on the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione — the same vehicle that saw it's North American debut at this very same spot at Meadowbrook last year and caused Wert to have an Alfa Romeo-gasm.

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3:41 PM on Tue Jul 29 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
7,143 views, 81 comments

Latest by MeadowBrook: Ladies and Gentleman of Jalopnik Although biased, I don't think you'll ever see a better variety of great cars anywhere. You've read more »

down on the street

1982 Fiat X-1/9

My DOTS-detectin' antennae are getting more sensitive every day; I caught the briefest glimpse of something red and vaguely wedge-shaped down a side street out of the corner of my eye while riding as a passenger in a car and made a mental note: Possible Fiat X-1/9! Investigate later! Sure enough, when I went back to that block later on, here was a red X-1/9 and not a Toyota MR2 or Pontiac Fiero (not that there's anything wrong with either of those two, but they're not anywhere near as rare as the Fiat). This ability comes at a price, as I now drive at a maddening 15 MPH in Alameda- the better to scan for interesting iron- and I'm sure my car is hated by the impatient types who don't understand that I'm on an important mission.
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9:00 AM on Tue May 27 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,775 views, 55 comments

Latest by gumbypiz: Doesn't having to fit in the car matter in choice? If you were anything over 5'9" there is no way more »

down on the street bonus edition

Volvo Bertone Flashes Italo-Swedish Style On Denver's Boulevards

There's a Volvo 262C parked in a driveway scant blocks from my house; it would be a super-cool DOTS car, but it's off-limits. Not so for the Bertone in ejacobs' neighborhood, which is on the street and set up for easy photography with no other vehicles nearby. These things sold for 15 grand back in the day, well over twice the price of a regular 242; this one has some rust, but looks pretty complete.

4:00 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,194 views, 40 comments

Latest by GTBruiser: My brother bought a black over silver Bertone Volvo to match his black/silver '75 Jaguar XJC. He even more »

choose your eternity

Project Car Hell: IROC Volvo Bertone or Mazda 808?

Stop the presses! Italy has just won the First Ever Jalopnik Project Car Hell Superpower Showdown, with the 1JZ-powered Portuguese Barn Find '59 Maserati beating the Subaru-powered 4CV in a 55-45 split. Today we're going to look at two cars that don't fit neatly into a common category, yet give off about the same number of counts per minute on the Jalopnik Coolness Geiger Counter™.
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5:15 PM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By Murilee Martin
3,392 views, 60 comments

Latest by FE3T: Mazda for shure. Tat Volvo looks like a resirculated shipping container (dont they all do?) and would need a miracle more »

fast as a shark

I Voted No on the 250 GTO



While the Loverman and I agree on a great many things and have quite possibly slept with too many of the same women (all before we knew each other), now and then there is a great schism. DAF vs. FAF, Evo vs. WRX. Killdozer vs. Dave Matthews. Okay, so the last one was a complete and utter lie. But the 250 GTO is one of the only Jalopnik Fantasy Garage cars I've ever voted down. And it sounds like insanity, even to me. More »

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6:15 PM on Tue Jul 31 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
2,490 views, 44 comments

Latest by Euromobile: I must confess, while I voted the 250 GTO in (solely because it is an undesputed classic), I'd rather have more »

the mark of the turtle

The 1965 Gordon-Keeble

The '65 Gordon-Keeble's formula seemed sound: tube-frame chassis, Bertone-styled fiberglass body, and a 300-horsepower Chevy 327 engine. The turtle emblem seemed out of place on a car that could hit 145 per, but at least it was a fiery red turtle. In any case, various cash-flow and parts-supplier problems limited the Gordon-Keeble to a production run of only 100 cars. Of course, when we're talking about British 4-seaters with Detroit V8s, it brings up the obvious question: which would you rather have- Gordon-Keeble with a screamin' small-block Chevy, or Jensen Interceptor with axle-snappin' Mopar big-block? [gordonkeeble.org]

11:00 AM on Wed Jul 18 2007
By Murilee Martin
889 views, 12 comments

Latest by Stoatmaster: Gordon-Keeble switch gear, venting and clocks were sourced from DeHavilland Comet jet-liner stock. Genuine high-spec aircraft kit, in other words. Beautiful. more »

bertone toni toné

Bertone Building a BMW-Powered Sports Car for the US?

In today's Automotive News, a seemingly tossed off line turned a simple piece on Bertone Carrozzeria's travails into a speculator's dream column. More »

1:30 PM on Tue May 29 2007
By Mike Spinelli
487 views, 4 comments

concept cars

Geneva Showcase: Bertone Barchetta Concept

< dipshit 1980s prog-rock reference > Whether or not your uncle has country place that no one knows about, or if a gleaming alloy air car is shooting towards you two lanes' wide, what you need is a brilliant Red Barchetta from a better, vanished time < /dipshit 1980s prog-rock reference >. No, what you really need is a Bertone Barchetta, which may be awkwardly over-stylized, but still sets the pick for a small Fiat roadster that employs wide swaths of stainless steel in its body construction. The Barchetta's underpinnings are all Fiat Panda, a tiny, front-drive Italian runabout that tops out at 100 mph. The whole car is a take on the diminutive Fiat Barchetta of the late '40s, a tiny roadster made for bombing around vineyards while buzzed on a nice Amarone. This future-shock version, however, makes us want to drink chilled vodka from the rain gutters of the Centre Pompidou. Two stars. – Mike Spinelli More »

5:50 PM on Tue Mar 6 2007
By Mike Spinelli
1,963 views, 10 comments

Latest by Frogmarch: "Dipshit", as Spinelli said, for the blatantly-obvious reference rather than for the (distinctly non-dipshit) nature of the band. Those late-90s more »