The seller says that the car has been braced for shipping: that is a wise move as the car has a rotten chassis and the risk of bending the car is very high. We don’t spot a GTE to restore for sale since at least two years ago: these cars are very rare and by… Read More Braced for shipping: 1959 Lancia Appia GTE by Zagato
As it usually happens, the seller doesn’t say the production year of this car (but we suppose that this should be a ’62 or ’63 third series) which is said to be a one owner car: that would be an extraordinary feature for a 50 years old car. Of course the “Rosso Arcoveggio” (Arcoveggio red)… Read More One owner: 1963 Lancia Appia Convertibile by Vignale
March 14 Here it is again with a price drop to €15,000 (today $16,600) February 23 That’s the first time we see for sale an Appia convertibile in this pale blue shade: actually this car has also a blue interior and soft top. Usually it’s easier to find these cars in white red or grey so… Read More Blue on blue: 1963 Lancia Appia Convertibile by Vignale
That’s not a news seeing a project car without the lights, both on the front and the rear end: it looks like that headlights and taillights are the most cannibalized part of any car abandoned to its destiny. This Appia Coupé by Pininfarina has had such destiny but, apart from the missing lights which are… Read More Blind project: 1958 Lancia Appia Coupé by Pininfarina
50 years ago the luxury options for a car were way less than today, however there were a lot of coachbuilders who offered luxury and bespoke finishes without spending a fortune. One of those coachbuilders, one of the most known, was Alfredo Vignale who learned the job at Stabilimenti Farina and thenbuilt his hown company… Read More Popular luxury: 1960 Lancia Appia Lusso by Vignale
So far we have often seen these cabriolets by Vignale built after the 1960, but actually cars built before that year are quite rare. Then, this is not a first series Cabriolet: the first series had only two seats (this is a 2+2 car), a discontinued side profile (with the rear fins more outlined than… Read More Early car: 1959 Lancia Appia Convertibile by Vignale
Many of these panel cars were made by Lancia as they were often used by small companies in order to make quick deliveries around the city. Unfortunately most of them were scrapped as, once they became old cars, they could not be recycled in the used car market: indeed the few cars remained are basically… Read More A different delivery: 1955 Lancia Appia “Furgoncino”
Whilst the seller of this Appia Convertibile (2nd series, chassis #812.01.3810) is not sure about what shade of gray his car is painted of, we are pretty sure that this is a very nice project. That is because this car appears, first of all, very solid. I have a Vignale Convertibile in the same conditions… Read More Two shades of grey: 1960 Lancia Appia Convertibile by Vignale
This Vignale coachbuilt Lancia has not the exotic look of the same car bodied by Pininfarina or of the convertible made by vignale as well, but still it’s a rare and classy coupé. 481 of these cars were made with the same care given to build cars much more expensive than this, and today very few… Read More Rare coachbuild: 1960 Lancia Appia Lusso by Vignale
Ok that’s the first time that we realize that Viotti made a Giardinetta coachbuild also on the Lancia Appia platform. Indeed we wrongly believed that Viotti has built Giardinetta’s (Viotti’s trade mark for the station wagon bodies) only on Fiat platforms but just for this reason we have a further proof that in the classic cars… Read More New entry: 1960 Lancia Appia Giardinetta by Viotti
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