B53 Giardinetta
B53 Giardinetta
"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting, but it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously." Douglas Adams
a very siginifcant B52, before and after complete restauration
"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting, but it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously." Douglas Adams
an finally some B20s in Tour Auto, demonstrating what they were, the very first thoroughbred GT car.
"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting, but it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously." Douglas Adams
I remember seeing a Wolseley woodie for sale a few years ago, and this one is quite pretty too.
Were woodies as much of a craze in Europe as they were stateside?
"Kimi, can you improve on your [race] finish?"
"No. My Finnish is fine; I am from Finland. Do you have any water?"
"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting, but it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously." Douglas Adams
comparison is not quite correct Lincoln was a luxury brand created by Ford, while Vincenzo Lancia was a genius in his own right, (apart from Abraham, there is no other famous American I can recall) creating for instance the first unitary body car, the Lambda, in the 1920s. That Lancia ultimately ended in the claws of Fiat, had to do with the rationalisation of the Italian car industry, and its demise was partly triggered a long time ago by some dubious quality aspects in some of their models, and when the quality issues were finally solved, the targeted european customer had already developed his well known snobby Teutonic preference
"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting, but it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously." Douglas Adams
For me Lancia's rally cars are not the most important or interesting part of Lancia's history.
I don't think Lancia is like Lincoln at all. Surely, Lincoln has made some lovely cars over the years, like the 60's Continental, but their beauty never went farther than skin deep and they were for the most part little more than a Ford division.
Lancia on the other hand, as Pieter says, is very different. Their beuty was more than skin deep. Not only they made the first car with unibody, but also the first production car with a 5 speed gearbox, the first production car with a V6 engine or the first production car with an electrical system amongst many others.
The Aurelia is, for me, the peak of Lancia. It has a V6 engine, all round independent suspension and five speed transaxle gearbox, (PLUS THE MICHELIN X-Radial TYRE as standard), all in 1950. In 1951 a standard B20GT finished second overall in the Mille Miglia, just behind the just behind a works 4 litre Ferrari 340 America and the next year a similar coupé won the Targa Florio (Lancia's actually finished in the first three positions).
After the 1969 takeover by Fiat thing definitley were less interesting, nevertheless Lancia still had some left-field options to offer like the HPE, the Gamma (by the way, it's been said that Lancia's flat four engines, first in the Flavia, later in the Gamma, influenced Subaru's flat four engine design) or the Delta S4 with supercharging and turbocharging in the same engine.
So, to summarise, Lancia isn't like Lincoln at all.
Last edited by henk4; 01-12-2014 at 12:25 PM.
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