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When I was quickly scrolling through my old photos on the lookout for old Lancias, I initially thought this was another pic of the Aurelia, which I featured yesterday. But a closer look revealed it to be the smaller, but equally handsome, Appia. The Appia, introduced in 1953, was mechanically simpler than the Aurelia, doing without the latter’s transaxle gearbox, although it did have a new, Lancia-typical, V4 engine. Pic: Rétromobile Paris 2014.
It’s Old Lancia Day today - again! This is the Aurelia, produced in various iterations throughout the 1950s. Highlights included a V6 engine, a transaxle gearbox, and on later cars, deDion rear suspension. Also, apparently, the first car to be fitted with radial-ply tyres. Marvellous. Slightly blurry photo taken at Rétromobile Paris in 2014.
These old Lancias seem to be quite popular, so here’s another one! Meet the 1961 Lancia Flavia Coupé, which was designed by Pininfarina. I caught up with this one at the 2014 Bremen Classic Motor Show. Terrible photograph, beautiful car.
More Lancia loveliness today with the Flaminia 2500 Sport Zagato. This is a 1959 pre-series car which apparently has some extra features compared with the series cars produced from 1960 - including the distinctive glazed headlamp covers similar to those fitted to the Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato. Snapped at Techno Classica Essen last year.
Today we’re back at Techno Classica Essen 2023 for another handsome Lancia from the company’s heyday. This is the 1955 B24 America Spider. Only 240 were made, including 59 with right-hand drive, as in the case of this example.
Today, a treat from the days when Lancia was Lancia and made some of the most beautiful cars on the road. This is the 1962 Flaminia 2500 3C Touring Cabriolet, which was designed by Carrozzeria Touring. I saw this one at Techno Classica Essen in 2023.
Yesterday, I was saying that the Ferrari-engined Thema 8.32 was a major highlight of Fiat’s period of ownership of Lancia. This, the competition-inspired, high-performance Delta HF Integrale, with its turbocharged engine and all-wheel drive system was another. The pretty, and less muscular, standard Delta was the 1980 European Car of the Year, and was also sold in rebadged form as the Saab-Lancia 600. Pics: NEC Classic Motor Show, 2024.
It’s widely agreed that Lancia’s cars lost something of their distinctive character after Fiat took the company over in the late 1960s. But there were highlights - and this was a big one. The standard Lancia Thema was a sister of the Alfa 164, Saab 9000 and Fiat Croma but the 8.32 model (8.32 = 8 cylinders, 32 valves) had a Ferrari-derived V8 under the bonnet. Fast. Snapped at the 2024 NEC Classic Motor Show.
Today, a fifth variant of the Lancia Beta, the Beta Montecarlo, later just Montecarlo. The Montecarlo, introduced in 1975, was only loosely related to the other Betas. The main thing it had in common with them was its engine/gearbox package, although this was mid-mounted and drove the rear wheels while the rest of the Betas were FWD. The design came from Pininfarina. I caught this particular Montecarlo at this year’s NEC Classic Motor Show.
Today is the second anniversary of the first #davidsdailycar 
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This is the fourth member of the 1970s Lancia Beta family, the HPE, or high-performance estate, seen here at last year’s NEC Classic Motor show. This shared its frontal section with the Coupé and Spider, but its longer wheelbase with the Berlina.
Today, a third body variant of the Lancia Beta, the Spider, which was a Targa-style convertible, and clearly a close relative of the Coupé model I featured the day before yesterday. The convertible elements of the design were carried out by Pininfarina but the Spider, introduced in 1975, was actually built by the coachbuilder Zagato. Snapped at this year’s NEC Classic Motor Show a few weeks ago.
After yesterday’s Lancia Beta Coupé, today we are looking at its sister car, the Beta Berlina, introduced in 1972 as the first model in the Beta line-up, and the first Lancia launched after the takeover of the company by Fiat in 1969. Although the Berlina had a fastback shape, it had a separate boot/trunk, not a hatch. But that didn’t stop Lancia later introducing a three-box sedan version of the Beta, the Trevi. Pic: NEC Classic Motor Show, 2023.
In 1977, the Lancia Fulvia Coupé I posted yesterday was replaced by a 1300cc-engined version of this, the handsome Lancia Beta Coupé, which had already been on sale since 1973. This one is a 1600, and there were 1800s and 2000s as well. Snapped at this year’s NEC Classic Motor Show. More Lancia Betas over the next few days.
Yesterday, I featured the rather exotic Zagato-bodied Lancia Fulvia Sport. This is the car on which the Sport was based, the Fulvia Coupé, introduced in 1965. A sister to the somewhat staider Fulvia Berlina saloon/sedan, with which it shared its distinctive Lancia V4 DOHC engine and front-wheel drive set up. Snapped at Techno Classica Essen in 2013.
