What is New at this Site ?

What is New at this Site ?

A running log of updates since the site began in 1997 — new Gamines, brochures, stories and finds, newest first.

  • August 2026

    New, mobile-friendly website design — now available in six languages (English, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, French, German). · The ‘Virtual Vignale Gamine Club’ has been renamed to the Worldwide Gamine Register. · Updated register count: 824 Gamines in 38 countries. · New page ‘Vignale Creations’: a chronological list of every car built or designed by Carrozzeria Vignale, 1946–1969, linking to each model. · Many of those marques — Ferrari, Lancia, Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Cisitalia, Abarth, the Fiat family, BMW, Daihatsu, Jensen, MG, OSCA, Standard, Tatra, Triumph, Cunningham/Cadillac/Corvette, Volvo/Nardi — now have their own page here instead of an outbound link. · The seven Stories pages are back with their original photos.

  • August 2024

    Vignale Gamine book by Guus C.M. Beliën. · Link to the Facebook group ‘I proprietari di Vignale Gamine (110F Spider)’.

  • April 2021 (updated August 2024)

    Sorry Gamine and Vignale enthusiasts: nothing much new on the site since over a decade… BUT: with help from owners in the UK, France, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, we were able to find 540 Gamines in 29 countries! Of course, when Gamines get exported, they might be double in the Register — so we DO need your help: please fill out the PDF of the Register, include your chassis number, and send it to us. So far, we have 245 chassis numbers already! Update 08-2024: 761 Gamines in 34 countries + 441 unique VINs!

  • February 2000

    New French Gamine.

  • February 1999

    Italian Vignale brochure — and eleven Vignale brochures in total!

  • January 1999

    German brochure from the Hermes Post Shop, a catalogue sales company! Also thanks to Christian Schmitt!

  • December 1998

    Over 30 Gamines from Germany! Many thanks to Christian Schmitt from the German Fiat 500 & Gamine IG.

  • August 1998

    New Dutch Gamine, imported from Italy by Marcel Voet.

  • July 1998

    Gamine painting at ‘Parkeerbeheer Rotterdam’.

  • June 1998

    Red Austrian Gamine — for sale! · ‘The Gamine, the gambling king and the tank’, story by Andrew Adamides, Cyprus Mail. · Recently restored German Gamine. · Red German Gamine at the Vehikel-Sammlung Eppelheim. · Red Italian Gamine.

  • May 1998

    A Java applet to search the Gamine pages!

  • April 1998

    Greek Gamine for sale! · 1970 Coral Orange Gamine, owned by Neil McCabe (UK).

  • March 1998

    Dutch Vignale booklet: Gamine page + last page. More to follow!

  • February 1998

    Gamine miniature (thanks to Pascal De Bruycker) · 39 more cars built/designed by Vignale (mainly contributed by Albrecht Heinrici) · pictures of, and a roadmap to, Carrozzeria Vignale (thanks to Rainer Wieler).

  • January 1998

    New logo · 46 different cars built/designed by Vignale!

  • 12 December 1997

    First two USA Gamines! (thanks to Will Kerbo)

  • 9 December 1997

    Two more Gamines from France, both owned by Jérôme Rougé of the ‘Club Fiat 500 de Perpignan’.

  • 22 November 1997

    Italian newspaper articles from 1968 about the Gamine (+ hard top!).

  • 9 November 1997

    First Austrian Gamine on the Net! Thanks to Erik from the Erster Oesterreichischer Kleinwagen Club (EOKC). · A French Gamine, built in 1968; new owner will import it to Holland.

  • 1 November 1997

    Short story and pictures of the Route des Vosges – Plombières-les-Bains, France. The Gamine even won a trophy!

  • 28 October 1997

    More Gamines in Switzerland! (pictures by Cees van der Zee, thanks!)

  • 12 September 1997

    Danish Gamine for sale: from 1968, only two owners, driven 85,000 km, the only one in Denmark, very good condition, red with black top and interior.

  • 25 July 1997

    Gamines Varia postcard (try to count them all!) · five more Gamines at the 4-5 July 1997 Fiat 500 Anniversary at Garlenda, Italy (thank you Claudio!).

  • 21 July 1997

    Gamines at Garlenda 1997: two Gamines during the 4-5 July Fiat 500 Anniversary at Garlenda, Italy (again, thank you Bruno!).

  • 18 July 1997

    ‘Club Class’ — London nightclub owner Peter Stringfellow has owned many exotic cars. Michael Harvey was amazed at his latest purchase.

  • 17 July 1997

    ‘Autonotizie Vignale’ — a factory tour at Carrozzeria Vignale, with pictures!

  • 7 July 1997

    New LPage guestbook facilities.

  • 30 June 1997

    First Swiss owner on the web — admire Claudio’s Gamine.

  • 5 May 1997

    ‘Other cars by Carrozzeria Vignale’ — at the Turin factory of Vignale, not only Gamines saw the daylight. · Two new German Gamines: one another museum car, the other from a 1968 article!

  • 18 April 1997

    Another French Gamine! (thanks to Pierre Lanoix)

  • 12 April 1997

    New French Gamines — four more, thank you so much Bruno Lacoste!

  • 25 March 1997

    English history: ‘The Great Noddy Car Gamble’ — in the Sixties there was an unsuccessful attempt to sell Vignale-Fiats in the UK. Cris Rees tells the bizarre tale.