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Jonathan Sharp’s Visit to the FCA Heritage Hub

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Lancias are featured in the new FCA Heritage Hub.

This week we are happy to present to our readers a sneak preview of Fiat’s fantastic new museum, thanks to the assistance of Fiat Public Relations agent Umberto Hardouin. For this special feature, VeloceToday has installed a slide show feature, so you can enjoy the 36 images at your own speed. If you wish to speed up the slide show viewing, simply click on the right arrow.

Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

As we related last week, we visited the Fiat Centro Storico and then had lunch at the New Holland staff canteen. Our journey to the afternoon destination was a walk of just a few meters, as it was located in Workshop 81, situated next door. It is called the FCA Heritage Hub and it is not yet open to the public. [Read more…] about Jonathan Sharp’s Visit to the FCA Heritage Hub

Jonathan Sharp at Centro Storico Part 2 Postwar

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Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

We spent the morning at the Centro Storico Museum, as we related in last week’s Part 1 and below in Part 2. But it now was time to eat in Italy.

So where does an Italian working for Fiat go to take lunch? A nice little trattoria hidden down a small side street in Turin? No. Signor Hardouin has graciously arranged for us to eat at the Mirafiori factory where most of the workers eat. [Read more…] about Jonathan Sharp at Centro Storico Part 2 Postwar

Jonathan Sharp at Fiat’s Centro Storico

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Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

After our first day or so in Turin (see Scaglietti in Turin) and the visit to the Scaglietti exhibition, the next day went well, in fact I would say very well. As previously planned, Signor Hardouin from the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Press office arrived bang on time to pick us up from the Hotel Lingotto, paying our respects to the fascinating Siata Amica as we went out the door. [Read more…] about Jonathan Sharp at Fiat’s Centro Storico

Scaglietti in Turin

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Catching the Scaglietti exhibition in Turin.

Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

Well, it was all rather last minute, but my wife and I flew to Turin to do a bit of late Christmas food shopping. It’s a bit far to go to just buy a panettone, but this being Turin, old Italian cars will no doubt be part of the trip.

As we reported in our

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Cars Accelerating the Modern World Exhibition

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The new exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum covers a wide range of topics with great thought and imagination.

Photos by Jonathan Sharp

Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone to the newly named Victoria and Albert Museum in May 1899, and proclaimed “I trust it will remain for ages a monument of discerning liberty and a source of refinement and progress.” Whilst it is said that she did not say “we are not amused” I think the latest exhibition ‘Cars Accelerating the Modern World’ would have amused her.

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London to Brighton Run, 2019

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This Fiat, an 1899 2 cyl 3.5 hp Vis a vis, is owned by FCA but displayed at the National Motor Museum Beaulieu and driven by Doug Hill and Ian Staplefield. This is believed to be one of the first Fiats produced and is one of only three known to survive.

Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

What a difference a day makes. The weather on Saturday had been terrible, with gale force winds and torrential rain for most of the day. It did not bode well for the London to Brighton Veteran car run taking place the next day.

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Heveningham Hall Concours 2019

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Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

June 21-23, 2019 Heveningham Hall, UK —“What is your business here?” thus spoke the larger of the two assault-rifle-toting-military personal as we arrived at the main gate of the location. I wondered if he’d be ok with VeloceToday credentials. [Read more…] about Heveningham Hall Concours 2019

London Concours d’Elegance, 2019

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Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

The London Concours, held on June 5-6, is now in its third year and held again at the Honorable Artillery Company’s headquarters in the City of London, often described as being the location of the second most valuable cricket pitch in London. [Read more…] about London Concours d’Elegance, 2019

Supercar Sunday

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Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

Arriving with this year’s invitation to the Heveningham Hall Concours was an additional invite to the Stonor Park Supercar Sunday event, held on May 19th, and which is now in its second year. With a location in a valley within the Chiltern Hills to the northwest of London, my wife and I felt it was worth a trip.

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Brooklands Italian Car Day, 2019

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Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

May 4, 2019 Brooklands

Driving into the designated Alfa Romeo parking zone at the Brooklands circuit brought to my mind the long-term car park at Turin airport, except that the Turin long term car park nowadays is full of Kias and Volkswagens, not Fiats and Alfas.

Passing through the gate at Brooklands into the museum, this year we Alfa drivers had our own entrance, which avoided the queue at the Campbell gate. The Alfa section was 360 degrees of Alfas, so I placed my creaky old GT Blackline next to another GT. [Read more…] about Brooklands Italian Car Day, 2019

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