{"id":87498,"date":"2021-12-28T10:35:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T10:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=87498"},"modified":"2022-01-06T09:43:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T09:43:56","slug":"lancia-beta-montecarlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/lancia-beta-montecarlo\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancia Beta Montecarlo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the once large and innovative brand Lancia, only a sad remainder is still visible. Possibly this changes in the next years. The Stellantis group is apparently planning a kind of revival as a luxury brand for electric cars. Until that happens, however, all that remains is to look back at very different vehicles that have contributed to the creation of legends in their own way. One example is the Beta series, which debuted in November 1972 for the midsize class. The four-door sedan called Berlina was joined by four other body variants in the course of the following years. There was the Beta Coup\u00e9 from summer 1973, the Beta Spider from fall 1974 and the Beta HPE (High Performance Estate) from spring 1975. The latter model variant was a four-seater estate coup\u00e9 that looked like the normal Coup\u00e9 from the front but was based on the long platform of the Berlina. The final variant appeared in the fall of 1975 as the Beta Montecarlo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mid-engine coup\u00e9<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Although this body version continued to bear the same model name, it didn’t have much to do technically with the other offshoots. Lancia drew on design sketches by Pininfarina that had first been shown in the form of the Abarth 030 Concept and, shortly thereafter, in similar form as the Fiat X1\/9. The Beta Monte Carlo was also a two-seat mid-engined car. It was available with either a fixed metal roof or a rollable targa top. In the U.S., the model was simplay called Scorpion and received a modified front end with round pop-up headlights instead of the twin headlights or square headlights in Europe. This car appeared as a supporting actor in the Disney move “Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo”. Due to low sales, Lancia ceased production of the Beta Monte Carlo in 1978. However, since the Fiat Group needed a new base vehicle for the World Rally Championship, especially for the then new Group B, production of Series 2 began in 1980 with additional windows in the C-pillars and a modified front end.<\/p>\n\n\n

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