George Daniels at the wheel of his monstrous 12 liter Itala Grand Prix car at Douglas in the Isle of Man.(Photo Grand Prix Library/Gauld)
Story by Graham Gauld
As many regular readers know, I have a particular passion for Italian racing cars, even the very old ones, and when I recently was given a copy of a superb history of the Itala marque I immediately delved into it.
The fact that the book, published by AISA (Associazione Italiana Per La Storia Dell’Automobile) was in Italian called for a lot of hard work but I had a specific car in mind: the 1908 grand prix car.