Overlooked Coachbuilt Variants

Prestige does not always follow rarity. Some coachbuilt cars arrived alongside faster, prettier or more successful interpretations of the same chassis and were quietly pushed to the margins of automotive history. This collection gathers those overlooked variants: low-volume cabriolets eclipsed by sporting coupés, alternative bodies from celebrated carrozzerie that never became the definitive version, and expensive hand-built derivatives whose compromises made them less desirable when new but more intriguing with hindsight. Their importance lies not in being the fastest or most influential members of their families, but in revealing roads not taken - different ideas about luxury, performance and style expressed on familiar mechanical foundations. Often produced in tiny numbers and rarely given equal attention by historians or collectors, they show that the lesser-known branch of a model’s family tree can sometimes tell the more interesting story.