Life is Beautiful, Ed at Lugagno enjoying every second. Credit: photoagencyRene
This article originally appeared in VeloceToday on August 13, 2002.
By Ed McDonough
There are cars and there are cars.
I like to work on my personal list of the greatest/most desirable racing machines of all time, and then check off the ones I’ve driven. The list is at 72 out of a possible 100 and I have managed 20 so far, lucky person that I am—Ferrari 268SP, GTO, Jaguar C-Type—all with significant history.
The Lancia D50 would have been on the list, naturally, though I knew some time ago that it would never be driven. The two surviving machines reside quietly in the Lancia and Biscaretti Museums in Turin, and never run. However, I was towed around in one of them at the end of a rope, but that hardly counts. [Read more…] about Recreating the Past: The Lancia D50