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Story and Photos by Jonathan Sharp
If you could come up with an International standard Concours event that had a more diverse list of classes than this year’s Cartier Style et Luxe held during the Festival of Speed on June 23rd, I would be surprised.
And How! features open and innovative formats for notices, articles and posts.
Could Gigi Villoresi have beaten the BMWs with this fascinating V-8 Lancia Spider? jonathan Sharp provides the color photos and information from the Museo Nicolis.
The 1937 Astura Spider shown in the Nicolis museum was prepared in 1939 by Carrozzeria Colli, by order of the Milanese Scuderia Ambrosiana, for one of the Scuderia’s top drivers, Luigi ‘Gigi’ Villoresi. [Read more…] about And How! The Villoresi Lancia Astura Spider
Lancia Astura is the car, but what was the location? Italy? Maybe.
Thanks to Dale Lafollette of VintageMotorphoto for these photos of a Lancia. Clearly it is an Astura, and thanks to Paolo Giusti and Geoffrey Goldberg, we even know some of the history of this particular car. But what we didn’t know was where these photos were taken, by whom, or exactly when or who owned it at the time.
In the mid-1950s, when these photos were taken, the Lancia was apparently in Indiana or at least licensed in that state. Thanks to our astute readers, we now know where this rare Lancia was photographed and thanks to Jim Sitz, the probable owners at the time. [Read more…] about Mystery Solved: As Found Classic Number 13
Count Vittorio Zanon at the wheel of his 204A Cisitalia Abarth.
Story and photos by Graham Gauld
You would think that the Italians, of all people, would be avid collectors of cars but, generally speaking, this was not a popular hobby until the late 1960s. Nevertheless, there were such collectors, but often very private, usually old money individuals with a great taste for style. One of these was Count Vittorio Zanon di Valgiurata.