Joe Ballengee was driving his ’65 Lancia Flavia Sport Zagato through the Santa Fe Arts District, during the Santa Fe...
1952 Lancia Aurelia B50Photo: Peter Collins On a rare sunny day in late spring, on empty roads in Wiltshire, this...
When the world got back to normal life, after World War II, there was so much pent up demand for fun, that postwar sales of sports cars skyrocketed. And perhaps nowhere was that demand more acutely felt than in the United States where affordable sports cars and convertibles where in...
The Appia was introduced as Lancia’s new entry-level car in the 1950s. It started out as a passenger car in...
Without a doubt, the Lancia Stratos is one of the greatest rally cars ever. The glorious sound coming from its...
In my era as a race and rally driver, we were expected to assist in both the general and technical development of the particular car we were working with. It was long before the days of computer data logging and evaluation which is so prevalent today. So, a driver was...
900-horsepower 1984 Lancia LC2 goes full throttle at Brands Hatch in UK....
In the late ’70s, Lancia wanted something to grab some of the market share from the popular VW Golf. A...
The assembled gladiators, left to right: Alain Mahé, Jean-Francois Piot, Jacques Jauber, Jean Ragnotti, Jean-Louis Marnat, Michele “Biche” Petit, Jean...
Amelia Island, Florida March 13-15, 2015 David Sydorick’s 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Zagato Spider. John Campion’s assembled collection of Lancia works rally cars. 1975 Ferrari 312 T2, Chris MaCallister. BMW celebrated the 40th anniversary of winning the 12 Hours of Sebring. 1956 Arnott Sports 1100 Climax, Leah and Robert...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota...
Eight distinguished automobiles have been selected as finalists for the 3rd annual Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award, with...
Mike Lawrence There is a minor industry in new James Bond novels and if we include Young James Bond and the Moneypenny series there are more than three dozen. Anthony Horowitz has been commissioned to write a new novel, due in September, which will be set in the glamorous world...
The Lancia Stratos made an everlasting mark on the automotive world. By being the first uncompromisingly engineered WRC car and...
Jaguar’s regal record in the world’s most prestigious sports car race was assembled over many years We may not automatically...
“Bellissima! Bella Macchina!”will be exclaimed as Italian marques take the spotlight at this weekend’s first Caffeine & Carburetors Powered by Bankwell of the year, set for April 22 from 8-11 a.m., at the corner of Pine and Elm Streets in New Canaan, Connecticut. Beauty, style and horsepower will line the...
It is interesting to note that the two most iconic constructors of Italian road-going sports cars—Ferrari and Maserati—only grudgingly began...
At the 1955 Brussels Motor Show, Lancia introduced the B24 Spider America, an open two-seater that is arguably the most...
The Beta Montecarlo was Lancia’s range-topping production model, powered by a 2.0-liter, twin-cam, four-cylinder unit designed by Aurelio Lampredi. The car was stripped down and rebuilt with a steel monocoque and subframe. A turbocharged version of the Lampredi engine was created by Abarth to compete in Group 5 under the...
The Lancia Rally 037 was a Group B rally car produced by Lancia in cooperation with Abarth and Pininfarina. It...
Following a promising year with the LC1 Group 6 prototype, Lancia wanted to continue being one of the frontrunners for...
Carlo Pintacuda was one of the Florentine greats, a motor racing elite from the Tuscan city that also included Gastone Brilli-Peri, Emilio Materassi, Clemente Biondetti and Giulio Masetti. Pintacuda not only won the fabled Mille Miglia twice in Scuderia Ferrari Alfa Romeos, he was also the man who convinced Enzo...
The Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica (BAT) Alfa Romeos, by Scaglione, put Bertone on the map in the 1950s. Pictured here is...
Lancia D50 VRJ European Editor Ed McDonough recently became the first journalist to seriously test a D50 of any type,...
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Bertone Design, Concorso Italiano will feature several prominent concept cars from the Bertone...
Imagine you are a designer in late 1952. One day you are sitting, staring out of the window, when your boss rushes in, hands you a large sheet of paper and two freshly sharpened pencils. “Design me a 2500-cc engine,” he commands. “That will be the capacity for the next...