When you think at the Lancia badge, you of course think about style, technology and elegance: this car is faithful to such concepts. This is one of the coachbuilt Aprilia made by Pininfarina across the end of the fourties and the beginning of the fifties and, most of all, it is speculated as being the 1949 show… Read More Not a concours car: 1949 Lancia Aprilia Cabriolet by Pininfarina
The better priced Fulvia Fanalone around has been used for sure as properly as this car deserves: a lot of stickers on the rear quarter window demonstrate how many rodeos this car joined so far. It is indeed a race-ready car with all the equipment needed for the job: intercom, tripmaster, shift light, fire estinguisher, everything… Read More Monte Carlo calling: 1970 Lancia Fulvia 1600 HF Coupé “Fanalone”
Believe it or not, nowadays you can still see barn finds like this one which, indeed, is a rare B24S which has been stored many years. This car (chassis B24S-1612) needs not only cosmetics but to be disassembled in pieces and then fully restored. The seller says that there is rust under the sills (as usual)… Read More Restoration doesn’t matter: 1959 Lancia Aurelia B24 Convertibile
That’s the very first time that we see a job like this made on a Lancia Fulvia Coupé. Generally seeing a work like this on italian cars is quite odd, with the exception of some very particular cars like the Maserati Ghibli 115 or the Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona. But in those cases who made… Read More A cooler summer: 1972 Lancia Fulvia 1300s “Spider”
Once again, here is a photo report from this edition of the Vernasca Silver Flag, the historic evocation of the hillclimb race. As usual, no lawn here: every car is asked to growl and run uphill from Castell’Arquato to Vernasca: 8,5 km of bends. This year the Flag is dedicated to the genius of Vincenzo… Read More Vernasca Silver Flag 2014
“Where does he get all those wonderful toys?” (Joker/Jack Nicholson, Batman, 1989) Here another mr. Rapley’s find; this time is a big toy from 1959 made by Zagato (chassis #824.00-1181): basically, just after the B24S series, this is the most valuable classic Lancia road model on the market today. This is a super dry… Read More Just another hat trick: 1959 Lancia Flaminia Sport by Zagato
Update, same day: This car has gone fast, sometimes the bird must be even earlier… When the Appia came out, many coachbuilders made a lot of style exercises on this platform, the most famous of them were for sure Pininfarina and Vignale: The Pininfarina coupè has for sure a sleeker line than this car which, however, still… Read More Two doors only: 1960 Lancia Appia Coupé By Vignale
The seller of this little racer has posted a photo of a Zagato bodied lancia Formula Junior: in our opinion that photo has nothing to do with the car auctioned. However it could be really a Dagrada racecar: Angelo Dagrada began to built these cars using a Lancia Appia 1100 engine with an head completely… Read More Racecar trivia: 1959 Lancia Dagrada Formula Junior
The seller says that this is a rare find in the U.S., and we agree with him. These were not officially imported in the U.S.A. and even then, they would have be too expensive, especially if compared with the huge american sedan competitors. However, this car need more than some work: the seller sasy that… Read More Matt black berlina: 1959 Lancia Appia Series II
This is not the first report, nor the last of such event. Many beautiful and rare cars among which, not only in our opinion, Corrado Lopresto’s 1931 Alfa Romeo 6C Gran Sport bodied by Aprile in the early fifties stands out of the crowd. Also a Beautiful V16 Maserati from the thirties is not a… Read More Villa d’Este 2014: A photo report
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