When we first laid eyes upon this 1977 Lancia Scorpion, co-workers had to hold us down to prevent a mad run in the company van toward Rhode Island. The car was known as the Beta Montecarlo in Italy, but since Chevrolet already had a Monte Carlo car, the Montecarlo was christened Scorpion stateside. The name […]
The Canadian auction house, RM, was chosen to oversee liquidation of the onetime Bertone Museum, and its 30-car auction at the end of May in Italy promises to be one of the high-end sales season’s very peaks. Six of the cars will be actual Bertone creations, dating from the 1963 Chevrolet Testudo. Arguably, the wildest […]
During the late 1950s, Raymond Loewy made a break from designing cars for Studebaker and went on a European trip, designing cars for Jaguar, BMW, and as we see from the January 1961 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, Lancia as well. The Loraymo, as Loewy called it, was based on a 1959 Lancia Flaminia chassis and […]