Lancia were always at the forefront of innovation and in the true Italian tradition of ensuring that the maximum amount of power could be created from even modest engine sizes, a ruse that was from the earliest days dictated by the country's taxation policies, the pioneering Flavia made its debut in 1960. It was one of the first cars to have both front wheel drive combined with a flat engine. Unmistakably from the house of Vignale, Lancia's Flavia convertible resembles the ever-popular Maserati 3500 GT Convertibles with its similar pronounced nose treatment. Long fancied by the owners of this group of cars, a Lancia Flavia would join the stable in more recent years, where it sat alongside both a Flaminia and Aurelia. With the time freed up from managing the large collection of automobiles dispersed by Bonhams last June, the specialists who had worked on these cars were able to focus their attention on a thorough rebuild of this final Lancia convertible, another good, original and sound basis. The car has been completely stripped to bare metal, any attention required to the bodywork was carried out and it was then repainted in the elegant ivory white livery. Its interior was retrimmed in contrasting red leatherette and a black top was fitted. Mechanically, the horizontally mounted engine has been rebuilt by a noted specialist on these cars and has recently been refitted to the car. All told, it will have cost the seller some $100,000 in expenses to bring the car to the fine order it is today. When recently inspected the debugging of the restoration was being carried out, quite literally to prepare it for sale, this has since continued and the car is reported to be running and driving as well as it looks.
Lancia were always at the forefront of innovation and in the true Italian tradition of ensuring that the maximum amount of power could be created from even modest engine sizes, a ruse that was from the earliest days dictated by the country's taxation policies, the pioneering Flavia made its debut in 1960. It was one of the first cars to have both front wheel drive combined with a flat engine. Unmistakably from the house of Vignale, Lancia's Flavia convertible resembles the ever-popular Maserati 3500 GT Convertibles with its similar pronounced nose treatment. Long fancied by the owners of this group of cars, a Lancia Flavia would join the stable in more recent years, where it sat alongside both a Flaminia and Aurelia. With the time freed up from managing the large collection of automobiles dispersed by Bonhams last June, the specialists who had worked on these cars were able to focus their attention on a thorough rebuild of this final Lancia convertible, another good, original and sound basis. The car has been completely stripped to bare metal, any attention required to the bodywork was carried out and it was then repainted in the elegant ivory white livery. Its interior was retrimmed in contrasting red leatherette and a black top was fitted. Mechanically, the horizontally mounted engine has been rebuilt by a noted specialist on these cars and has recently been refitted to the car. All told, it will have cost the seller some $100,000 in expenses to bring the car to the fine order it is today. When recently inspected the debugging of the restoration was being carried out, quite literally to prepare it for sale, this has since continued and the car is reported to be running and driving as well as it looks.
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