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| The Famous Flaminia... |
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| The greatest pilot of the past (and future) ... TAZIO NUVOLARI... had an Augusta for his personal transport which says a lot about the Lancia's behaviour! Jan Van Hoorick of the Lancia Club Belgio has a preference for the Augusta also... |
| Raf Vallone, another Italian actor, may not be very well known, but he's the bad Maffia boss with his black Fiat Dino in "The Italian Job"... and he was especially bad when he had the Miura crashed and dumped in a mountain river. Benny Hill's E-type didn't escape to his way of warning and was thrown in a ravine as well as Michael Caine's DB 4 Aston Martin... too bad to look at... but where these cars as well as they look or just rotten lookalikes...? Either way... who was responsible for this massacre? The Lancia is black now and still has the pop out "� la Zagato" door handles and the Fontana hard top ordered by Mr. Vallone. Note the black part behind the windscreen... wether this was original or not is the question. The B24 was very fashionable and a special one-off with more pronounced tailfins was made for Brigitte Bardot. Her husband, Roger Vadim had a Flaminia Touring... |
| Another movie star, Greta Garbo. I didn't know she was fond of rallying, but what car could better suit a women than the nimble easy handling Lambda? A Bentley blower looks more masculine of course but you need Schwarzenneger and Stallone to turn the wheel while Muscles from Brussels Jean Claude Van Damme is doing all he can to slowen the truck down by pushing with all his power on the brakes... So it's quite stupid to say a car is "Feminine" when all the commands are light and easyl... it's not feminine... it's exquisitely engineered! |
| "One day I'll drive to heaven in this car...." Need I say more? And Pinin had a lot of very nice cars to choose from.... |
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| Queen Elizabeth and the Duke on their official visit to Italy... driven around Rome in a lenghtened Flaminia. I think 3 of these were built. Pay attention to the perfect flanks and door gaps... Pininfarina at his best! |
| Le G�n�ral de Gaulle (left) visits the Lancia stand at the Salon de l'Automobile in Paris and seems to appreciate the Lancia Appia Convertible while the Shah and his wife Farah Dibah (below) are more interested in the Flaminia. The Shah loved sportscars and among the most famous ones are the custom built Maserati 5000 GT and a very rare Lamborghini Miura Jota, now in hands of the actor Nicolas Cage. |
| Many thanks to Mr. Bert Ewalds from the Netherlands for the very nice pictures of Fangio, the Shah, the Queen and de Gaulle! |
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| 12 may 1960, Prince Aly Khan's (48) GT Touring in which he had a fatal crash in the Bois de Boulogne whith a drunken Simca driver... Bettina, the most famous model of that time came out uninjured. His ex-wife was Rita Hayworth. and a few years later, on the 5th of july1965 in the same Bois de Boulogne on the Avenue de la Reine Marguerite, the mondane playboy , Porfirio Rubirosa, did it over in his Ferrari 250 GT. Obviously a very "chique" place to crash! Picture: LMC magazine |