On June 14th at 10 am CDT, Paul Wilson will be presenting his Alfa 6C 2500 Coupe at one of the world’s most unique automotive events, the annual
Villa Erba 2025: Italians
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
It’s easier to understand Villa Erba, Villa d’Este and the Fuori Concorso if we list the schedule:
Saturday, Sunday, May 24-25 Fuori Concorso
Saturday May 24 Exhibition and Inspection of the cars by the Jury, Villa d’Este
Sunday May 25 Transfer of all Historic Cars and Concept Cars to Villa Erba
Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este Public Day – Il Festival, Villa Erba
After the Fuori show (see last week) is the Villa d’Este concours, which then shifts over to the nearby Villa Erba, still on the lake shore, for the public day, which is what we cover here.
Villa Erba 2025, Non-Italian
Christian Troelsfeldt’s 1950 Bugatti Type 101 C by Antem. Of the one prototype and six series Bugatti 101s constructed only one, chassis,101504, carried two-seater coachwork by Antem. Commissioned by Rene Bollore, the second husband of Ettore Bugatti’s widow, chassis 101504 was originally painted dark green with chrome spoke wheels and white wall tires.
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
This we covered in two parts last week. This week we continue the event coverage with the non-Italian cars featured at this year’s show at Villa Erba. Villa d’Este Class winners are listed below the gallery.
Fuori the Bountiful
Alfa 159
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
This was the fourth edition of the Fuori Concorso, held on the glittering shores of Lake Como on May 24. The theme chosen by the event creator Guglielmo Miani and his chief curator Andrea Luzardi was ‘Velocissimo’ a celebration of Italian motor racing. Spread across the gardens of Villa Grumello and Villa Sucato the event was certainly a sight for sore eyes. Beautiful cars, a gorgeous backdrop and beautiful weather… what more could an Italian car fan wish for. Part 1 below informs the readers via captions, Part 2, Fuori the Beautiful, is a non captioned gallery of our favorites.
Fuori the Beautiful
Spa Classic 2025 Part 1
A faithful member of the Peter Auto series, the 1953 Aston Martin DB2/4 Bertone Spider driven by the Swiss Heinz Stamm.
Story and photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt
Since its creation in 2011, Spa Classic has established itself as a pillar of historic racing organized by Peter Auto, organizer of the Tour Auto and Le Mans Classic, among others. Ten grids made up this 2025 edition, which was very wet from Saturday noon until Sunday afternoon, typical weather for the Francorchamps circuit. This didn’t stop the competitors from putting on a show on the track, with a reduced number of accidents despite the conditions, and the brave spectators from enjoying the experience. For photographers, the rain is certainly a challenge, but the difficult conditions add an extra dimension to the task, and that’s what makes it so rewarding. Here’s a look at some of the grids on track this weekend.
Spa Classic 2025 Part 2
The 917’s great rival, the Ferrari 512 M driven at Spa by David Hart and his son Olivier.
Story and photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt
Heritage Touring Cup
The Heritage Touring Cup stages the glorious times (1966-1984) of the European Touring Car Championship.
Ecurie Ecosse Tour, 2025
Head of Pro-Drive, famed for their World Rally Championship successes with the factory Subarus and later Ferraris in the 1990s, David Richards with his wife Karen and their Aston Martin DB6 Volante.
Story and photos by Graham Gauld
It’s May, so for me it is time for the Ecurie Ecosse Tour, held on May 18-22. It originally started in the 1990s when this gathering of friends with nice cars were brought together under the umbrella of Ecurie Ecosse. To everyone’s surprise this small private team won the 1956 Le Mans 24 Hour spectacle with one of their D type Jaguars driven by Scots Ron Flockhart and Ninian Sanderson. Not only that, but this success allowed them to enter two cars for the 1957 and they promptly went out and finished first and second in D type Jaguars and a legend was born.
Terre di Canossa Rally 2025
Porto San Stefano, gelato break.
Story and photos courtesy Joe Hurwich and Friends
On May 6, 2025, Bob Goldberg and I met at the Rome airport for the beginning of the Terre di Canossa regularity rally of 600km on May 9. The rally started in Punta Ala, but we stayed overnight Tuesday about halfway in Porto Santo Stefano. By luck, this was a real find. Porto Santo Stefano is on a small island on the Mediterranean in a beautiful bay, and our hotel was right on the sea. Our rooms were less than 10’ from the ocean. I don’t know what they do when it is high tide. [Read more…] about Terre di Canossa Rally 2025
1946 Fiat 1100C Spider by Frua
The car that launched the creative career of Carrozzeria Frua
Storyteller and Photographer | Richard Lentinello
This article originally appeared in Crankshaft #1
Courtesy Crankshaft Magazine
Italy during the 1950s and ‘60s was a hotbed of custom car building. Called carrozzerias, the work that emerged from these body shops was highly creative, immensely distinctive and uniquely Italian. Their creations ran the gamut from rebodied production sedans into one-off sports cars, full-race competition cars as well as custom bodies for all sorts of Italian and European automobiles including Alfa Romeo, Aston Martin, Ferrari and Triumph.
Quail MotoFest 2025: Bikes and their People
Story and photos by Brandes Elitch
There is one event that might be called “The Pebble Beach of Motorcycles.” That is The Quail MotoFest, now in its fifteenth year. The original idea came from Brooke Roner and Jared Zaugg in 2006: to create a high class, premier judged event for motorcycles, and they said that they based it on the Pebble Beach show. They chose the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Half Moon Bay, certainly a high-class venue.
Italian Air Force Museum Part 3
The Fiat G46 whether in single or two-seater form, was an all-metal aeroplane with good flying characteristics that first flew on the 25th June 1947. Argentina immediately ordered 12 examples before buying a further 36 airframes. Similar in concept to the G55 but powered by the much less powerful 225hp de Havilland Gipsy Queen engine produced under license by Alfa Romeo as the AR.115 ter, the G46 is considered to be Fiat’s first major achievement since the war. The example on display was first operated out of the Flying Department of the General Staff before being passed onto the Aero Club of Ferrara.
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
Facts from Museum placards, website and internet; occasional typos or incorrect spelling may occur!
Skema Hangar
We now present this third and final part of the Italian Air Force Museum. We now enter the Skema Hangar which covers the period from the end of World War II until approximately 2012. The Skema hangar is the fourth and largest of the hangars, designed by aeronautical engineers and constructed from steel reinforced concrete by the Skema Company.