Car of the Week: 1969 Fiat 500L

From the roads of Italy to the streets of Michigan, Winter Wonderland at the Gilmore, Mecum has a new home and a double restoration.

Not rendering correctly? View this email as a web page here. Car of the Week: 1969 Fiat 500L From the roads of Italy to the streets of Michigan, this little 1969 Fiat 500L has brought smiles wherever it has roamed. Wayne Hayward loved his little 1969 Fiat 500L so much that he couldn't leave it behind. He just had to bring it home with him — all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. Hayward drove the wheels off the tiny sedan while he lived and worked in Italy. He didn't mind using a 50-year-old microcar as his daily transportation — even in the hills and snow of northern Italy. He had so much fun being squeezed behind the wheel that he brought it home to Plainwell, Mich., with the rest of his belongings. See More Make your car our "Car of the Week"  If you've got an old car you really love, we want to hear about it! Click here to submit your ride! Winter Wonderland Drive-Though Lights Spectacular at the Gilmore Car Museum November 24th - January 9th Winter Wonderland at the Gilmore Car Museum is a new drive-thru and walk-through nighttime holiday lights experience inside the spacious 90-acre Gilmore Car Museum campus. Winter Wonderland will run November 24 - January 9th throughout the Gilmore Car Museum grounds. See More Mecum Auctions moving to MotorTrend TV and MotorTrend+ in January Motortrend Group and Mecum Auction, Inc. create a multi-year strategic partnership to deliver exclusive, live coverage of all Mecum auctions. Mecum Auctions - MotorTrend Group and Mecum Auction, Inc. announced  a new multi-year agreement that delivers exclusive, live coverage of Mecum Auctions on MotorTrend+ and MotorTrend TV beginning in January 2022. Under the agreement, MotorTrend will broadcast and stream more than 160 hours of live coverage across ten Mecum Auctions including Kissimmee, FL, Glendale, AZ, Indianapolis, IN, Harrisburg, PA, Monterey, CA, Dallas, TX, Chicago, IL, Las Vegas, NV (autos and motorcycles), and Tulsa, OK. See More Double Restoration First GT350 first restored to Ford specs, then to Shelby standards Three years ago, Florida car-collector Nick Smith acquired the most collectible of all Shelby Mustangs — 5S003, the prototype for the street 1965 GT350 and the first GT350 completed at Shelby American in late 1964. Although previously restored to award-winning concours condition by former owner Mark Hovander, Smith established his own ambitious goal for the historic GT350: "It's the first Shelby Mustang so it should be the best Shelby Mustang." That objective set the stage for a "re-restoration," one that would make history as the only Shelby Mustang restored as it was originally built — first as a concours-spec 1965 Mustang 2+2 fastback as assembled by Ford, then converted into a GT350 in much the same manner as it was built by Shelby American. See More Subscribe Now to the Highest Frequency Publication for Die-Hard Car Lovers! Your subscription to Old Cars includes: All the recent news from around the old car hobby Coverage of all the important collector car auctions and shows Classifieds including expert advice SUBSCRIBE NOW! Active Interest Media 5710 Flatiron Pkwy, Suite C Boulder, Colorado, 80301 United States You received this email because you are subscribed to Old Cars Weekly eNewsletter. Update your email preferences to choose the types of emails you receive.