Building cars is a pretty global affair these days. Everybody seems to have a factory everywhere, and even tiny specialist automakers source major components from overseas. Sixty years ago, it wasn’t as common to find the best of the Old World mixed with the best of the New, but it did happen, usually in the form of a European chassis and body powered by a pushrod V-8 from somewhere in Michigan.

British Bristols, French Facel Vegas, and Italian DeTomasos all enjoyed the unbeaten bang-for-your-buck of an American V-8, but the prettiest Euro/American hybrid has to be a low, slippery Chevy-powered coupe built in Tuscany for a few very short years in the ’60s—the Bizzarrini 5300. Aside from some versions of the Cobra, it’s also the most valuable.