RETROMOTIVE

LIV Swiss watches is a brand which started out as a Kickstarter crowdfunding project in 2014 and has evolved into a highly successful premium brand. Husband and wife team Chaz and Esti Chazanow were motivated to create a brand which had a point of difference from the luxury David Marvierwatches that are highly desirable but not attainable to most in high-end shops. Cutting out the middleman yet not skimping on craftsmanship and quality, LIV has developed an enviable reputation in the watch world. It uses premium materials which are handcrafted in Switzerland built to heavy duty standards but undercutting mainstream luxury brands by huge margins. The range of LIV watches caters for all tastes under the categories of Chronograph, Diver’s, Automatics and LIV Art pieces including the Genesis GX1 collection…

Get ready for an unparalleled adventure as we dive into the stories gracing the pages of Volume 20 of Retromotive Magazine. Across these pages, we discover that the love for classic cars and the commitment to their preservation continue to thrive, inspiring individuals to break boundaries, redefine standards, and create automotive masterpieces that captivate the hearts of enthusiasts worldwide. Our first stop? An Italian love affair with Alfa Romeo. Claudio del Gallo’s quest to create the ultimate Alfa 155 GTA is a mesmerizing journey through the annals of motorsport history. We'll delve deep into the racing prowess and road-going elegance of this Alfa Romeo masterpiece, a car that stirred Alfisti’s souls when it graced the scene in 1992. But that’s just the beginning. We explore Aubrey Automobiles, a restoration company…

Alfa Romeo had threatened to produce a road going 155 GTA Stradale but only got as far as a single prototype. So, to hell with still - born projects of which the automotive world has amassed sheds full over the years. Enter Claudio del Gallo who decided to build his own 155 GTA and add some Italian racing flare to his obsessive plan. “I was completely obsessed with the racing 155 GTA and that only became more intense when the 155 TI V6 DTM won the DTM in 1993,” Claudio begins. “And then Fiat faltered at the opportunity to create the 155 GTA Stradale road car, so I decided to make my own,” he declares. Across these pages you will notice the unmistakable presence of a Lancia Stratos, one of…

Lovely Landy. Georgia Peck was born with the automotive gene. But it wasn’t until early 2022 that she decided to take a rather large leap of faith and begin a unique bespoke business of putting her stamp on classic machines. Aubrey Automobiles, a woman-owned restoration company based in London, England, was off and running. The fledgling company unveiled a 1973 Series III Land Rover to the world earlier this year at Switzerland’s kitsch International Concours of Elegance (ICE) on that frozen St Moritz lake. Revived in meticulous detail, the Land Rover represents the first (Aubrey 001) commissioned project by Peck’s company. The finished product is a remarkable achievement since it was saved from becoming a rusted part of the landscape in country England. Designed and constructed for a family in…

A rnaud Biancini was at a Paris motorcycle show when I met him about 10 years ago. I was exhibiting a series of photographs from a motorbike trip to Argentina, and he and his wife Alexandra were exhibiting their work as jewelers. We've remained close friends ever since, thanks to our shared passions. They created their brand, ABMAD, a few years ago, inspired by their lifestyle of surfing, vintage cars, tattoos and music. Arnaud is a real jack-of-all-trades. In summer and winter, he packs his longboard onto the back of a splendid 1962 Chevrolet Corvair 95 and sets off to ride the waves on the French Atlantic coast. But he’s also interested in fashion, always very attentive to his style, design, music, vintage cars and motorbikes. Together with his friend…

Passione. Emozione. Energia. Bellezza. The machines of the eighties and nineties had it all. While the flashy grandeur of Italy’s le macchine influenced more than a few enthusiast greenhorns to plaster the likes of the De Tomaso Pantera GT5, Lamborghini Athon, Maserati Kyalami, and Ferrari 512 TR all over their bedroom walls, few examples of Italian engineering captivated the adolescent mind quite like Lancia’s rowdy little rally cars. In the shadow of more ostentatious siblings, Lancia’s influence on Italian car culture was not always recognized — abroad, the tiny Turin-based automotive manufacturer relied heavily on its Word Rally Championship (WRC) imprint, its cultural impact arguably paling in comparison to more exotic brands that had already set out to define Italy’s motoring identity to the world. As the decades rolled on…