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Gastón Rossato, proveedor y coleccionista de autos, llegó a Despierta América con dos vehículos icónicos de la compañía Ferrari. Alan Tacher no pudo evitar emocionarse con los vehículos producidos en los años 60 y 2000, y sin esperar más se montó en uno de ellos. #Ferrari275GTB #DespiertaAmerica
The Barn Miami holds a bonanza of “young timers” and other buzzy classics.
Gaston Rossato sold his first car, a 1981 Toyota Corolla he’d purchased from one of his South Florida neighbors, when he was just 9 years old. “He was asking $200 for the car. I offered him $100,” Rossato says. “He laughed at me.”
But...
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If there were ever a city poised to dethrone New York as the horological capital of the United States, it's Miami. Over the past decade, its population density has grown faster than any other city's in America.
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S4.E5 "Family Therapy"
In season 8, episode 1 of their YouTube auto series, Gaston Rossato and Renzo Rossato undertook a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T's tasteful RestoMod with no expense spared.
No expenses spared was the key, as the carmakers claimed they even had a stack of receipts ready to amaze the viewers. Some of the goodies in the Dodge Charger are not typically found in a '68 Charger or old school Charger, for that matter. The car was a rotisserie restoration, and so the...
The former Ferrari F1 driver and 1999 world championship runner-up initially bought the car to match his Lamborghini Countach.
In the mid-1970s, Porsche had already established itself as the world's foremost sports car racing power. But new rules had eliminated the world-beating 917 and suddenly required homologation for road cars adjacent to the cars that could win Le Mans in the Group 4 and 5 rule sets. So, Porsche set about making a homologation special, a turbocharged...
Picture the global scene in the early 1970s when William Towns, designer of the Aston Martin Lagonda Series 2, was putting pencil to paper. A spike in oil prices and an echo crisis in the steel industry had jackhammered the economies of Aston Martin’s largest market, the U.S., and its home country, the U.K.
With a double punch of high unemployment and high inflation, the bad times persisted through the decade’s midpoint. By early 1976 when Towns' sketches were...
A South Florida insurance executive wanted something different to run around his beach town. So he found an old Beetle, and then he learned to weave.
Juan Diaz-Padron has long been obsessed with oddball cars, and perhaps none as much as the Jolly, those goofily adorable cars based mainly on Fiat 500s. "I'm a classic automobile enthusiast, so I always like the idea of fun, vintage vehicles," the Miami insurance company CEO says.
Jollys were doorless, surrey-roofed,...
It hasn’t been too long since The Barn Miami was incorporated, and now it is one of the hottest car dealerships in Miami. According to Gaston Rossato, youtube had a large part to play in this development. What’s unique about Gaston’s dealership is that its storefront is entirely online in addition to his physical space. He markets his vehicles online and often uses Youtube, and some of the cars that Gaston’s dealership has had also have been featured on shows like the...
Some of the biggest car rental companies have set up shop in front of many hotels, viewing and photo ops at no cost! One of the ‘new kids on the block’ in Miami is The Barn Miami – despite being in the car business for only fifteen years, their millennial approach to this outdated industry.
The Barn Miami is one of the few auto boutiques dealing with specialty vehicles ranging from antique to exotic.
Run by Gaston Rossato, a car enthusiast dedicated to reforming the auto...
