1963 Lancia Flavia Sport Zagato. Ercole Spada: “I felt a real necessity to design something completely different.”
By Pete Vack
All quotes attributed to Ercole Spada are from Spada by Bart Lenaerts, Lies de Mol with Ercole and Paolo Spada.
As we reflect on the life of the late Ercole Spada, I realized that for a good part of my life, my primary automotive focus was on the cars built by Zagato. I wanted a Zagato because they were race cars, lightweight, didn’t rust, and often are Alfa-based and just as often, beautiful. They were in a class of their own, and stylistically a step beyond the normal.