On Friday June 10th I joined with the Dutch Alfa Club again this year for another of their trips abroad. This year, being the 25th anniversary of their first trip to Belgium, they once again traveled to Spa. An amazing …
Europe 2011 – Amsterdam to Milano then Lucca
June 25 – July 1, 2011 After spending a week in the Netherlands we flew to Milano for the Italian part of this trip. We rented a new FIAT 500 for the trip as it would come in handy for …
Europe 2011 – Garlenda, Italy for Fiat 500 Club Italy
July 1 – 3, 2011 Each year the Fiat 500 Club Italy holds a multi day meeting in Garlenda Italy. Its one of the larges meetings of original Fiat 500s in the world. This was our second time attending the …
Europe 2011 – Centro Storico Fiat – Torino
July 4th, 2011 – Torino Italy The Fiat Historical Center is a museum and company archive based in Turin. It displays cars, airplanes, trains, tractors, trucks, bicycles, washing machines, refrigerators with the Fiat brand . Scale models, reconstructions of parts of the production process, posters and …
Europe 2011 – Fiat Lingotto Factory
July 4th, 2011 Lingotto was built in the 1920s. When Senator Giovanni Agnelli (CEO and majority shareholder) had visited the Ford factory in Detroit, he then decided to expand production by adopting new and evolved production technologies in a state …
Europe 2011 – Museo Nazionale Dell’Automobile
July 5th 2011 The Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile (The National Automobile Museum), founded by Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia, is an automobile museum in Turin, northern Italy. The museum has a collection of almost 200 cars[2] among eighty automobile brands representing eight countries (Italy, France, Great …