{"id":26399,"date":"2018-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/lancia-aurelia-b24-spider-america-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-03T06:38:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T06:38:16","slug":"lancia-aurelia-b24-spider-america-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/lancia-aurelia-b24-spider-america-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancia Aurelia B24 Spider America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you ask today’s children about the Italian car brand Lancia, now, only one and a half years after the brand was taken off all European markets, there is just a shrug. Nowadays, Lancia offers only the small model Ypsilon in Italy and is gone from collective memory. Gone are also the great years of luxury vehicles, sports cars and great rally successes. Model names like Aprilia, Flavia, Fulvia, Beta, Gamma and Delta also became part of automotive history as race victories at Targa Florio, in Formula 1 or in other sports car races as well as various technical milestones before the wars.

One of the most beautiful models of the brand was created on the advice of a famous American with Austrian origin, who also suggested cars like Mercedes-Benz 300 SL and 190 SL, Porsche 356 Speedster or BMW 503 and 507 at the manufacturers: Max Hoffman. He also saw good opportunities for a two-seater sporty Roadster from Lancia and thus met with open ears in Italy. The base was the Aurelia, built since 1950. Lancia left it to Pininfarina to find nice forms and a beautiful body shape for the shortened chassis of the Aurelia B20 Coup\u00e9. From today’s perspective, one can only congratulate the designers again and again, the curves, beads and edges make a georgeous Roadster, which was named a Spider at Lancia. Due to the provision for the American market, the word ‘America’ was often added. Its panoramic windscreen is reminiscent of motor boats of the same era. That Pininfarina, Lancia and even Max Hoffman thought more of selling the car in the warm southern states than in colder northern states is clearly visible in the awkwardly mounted weather protection and plug windows, which just hold a bit of wind and at least the bulk of the raindrops outside with effort. However, with its 120 hp V6 engine, it was well enough motorized to appeall to amateur racers when needed.<\/p>\n\n\n

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