Automotive Rare Birds

by Ferdinand Otto von Galen

Rare and spectacular automobiles that dreams are made of ...

SIGHTINGS:

Polished gems and

diamonds in the rough

Mailing List

This book is a love story to a my adopted country -- The USA

WHY AMERICA

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Are you into classic cars and vintage autos? This is a site where you can check out some of the rare birds you've been dreaming about.

The Frua Line

(Above: Pietro Frua second from right next to Karl - Heinz Wedel at Waldrestaurant Unterschweinstiege in Frankfurt) It was September 1982 and Pietro Frua had come to the Frankfurt Motor Show, the IAA to mingle with his many designer confrères he knew would be there. As he sat at the dinner table, next to his old friend Karl-Heinz Wedel of Opel at the Waldrestaurant Unterschweinstiege in Frankfurt, another dinner guest sitting opposite him asked. “Among your many and varied cr