Taking a vacation to Rome in the beginning of march any HAMB guys from around there to show me some cool stuff? hell with all that old architecture I wanna see hot rods in another country haha!! May also go down to Naples ...
I dont know about Hot Rods in Italy, but I do know Italy well. You'll be busy. Buy a travel book and go bananas. Is a Chariot considered traditional?
im meeting a girl I know over there she knows rome well just looking for anything interesting dealing with my sickness of automobiles haha
flop you have to go here, i was talking to buddy about it the other day. we are planing a 2012 trip. normandy and roma! http://www.travel-destination-pictu...castle-and-bridge-rome-italy-628-pictures.htm
There is Rumblers CC in Milano...I think Cicciobilly is one of them... http://rumblers-italy.blogspot.com/
I have some friends from just outside Naples (Cappella.. Nice beaches)... It looks like an awesome place from what I've seen in pictures and sounds awesome from the stories.... There's a lot of history there too... There's still caves full of 'hardware' that the Germans couldn't take with them when they retreated, so they just set off explosives at the entrances... The Carabinieri (Italian state police) recently discovered one.. My buddy was visiting family in Italy and watched this on the news... Seems the Mafia was using it to store weapons (and also took advantage of what was there from WWII)... Pretty cool.... Somewhere around here,, I have a piece of a mosaic that washed up on the beach... My friend brought it back for me... It was from an early Roman settlement that was discovered a few months before he got there... I don't know about the hot-rod scene, but I do know that there will be plenty of other neat stuff to distract you....
My ex-brother-in law is stationed in Italy ( no idea what part). He took his late model Mustang with him... Some locals asked him to participate in a "static display".... I guess "car show" isn't in their vocabulary...
I'm from Italy, but I live near Venice, we have another chapter in Rome, with some guys running a bike shop in Aprilia (more or less 60miles fron Rome) called "lo scorpione" they work mainly on cars, but there you can find a '32 five windows, a shoebox, an early 50's f100 and some other cars, in Naples there is a place like a catacomb full of old domestic and foreign cars, I'll try to' post some pictures later today! Sent from my iPhone using TJJ
If I am correct. You cannot modify any car in Italy. It has to have all the original stuff that it was bought with. They even check to make sure you have the same size tire that the car was purchased with. These rules do not apply to us service personel stationed in Italy. I have been to one Motorcycle/car display and all modified cars came via trailers. You will love Rome I was there in October of 2010
It's not really like this, it's very hard (or you have to pay a lot of money) to get papers for something different from the original, for example it's nearly impossible to have regular papers for an hotrod with no fenders, but one member of our Roma chapter has a '32 chevy with a fenderless registration...it's hard but you can do it, and some people is going around in an "outlaw" way... Yes, people from USA living in USA army bases has more freedom, but they have different plates and something like an US registration! Sent from my iPhone using TJJ
This is what I saw in Italy on my trip Nov `07. I'm also getting into the history of the Mille Miglia. I must get there to see that. http://www.1000miglia.eu/inglese/home.html
Another example could be this one, in my '53 chevy I have the original inline6 but I can install a v8 because on my papers I only have the size of the engine and not the number of cylinders, and if the police stops me they know nothing about cubic inches, so it would be ok, but if I put a different size of tires I can have to pay a big ticket (something around 1000$) if I don't have that size on the papers... Sent from my iPhone using TJJ
The plate on that 1000miglia car is a particular one that only mechanics with a registered shop could have, you can put it on different cars or bikes, paying an insurance on the plate and not on the car/bike and you can drive more or less everything with that, but it should be only a "test" license plate so officially you cannot do long trips if you can't prove that the trip was for a show or for a test... Sent from my iPhone using TJJ
I was in Italy few months ago,it was short,but pretty neat trip.Maybe at next year again. Here's a thread about that weekend trip: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=509721
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