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Here you can read articles about the Aurelia Spider.
Original drawing of Aurelia Spider B24!
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"Beautiful Aurelia Spider on the most prestigious Concours d'Elegance in the world, at Villa d'Este 2011 (Italy). The ex Antonella Lualdi e Franco Interlenghi"
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Pebble Beach 2008
Second in class, Postwar Preservation
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2007: "And again a
new world record price for a Lancia B24 Spider America at R.M. Auctions
in America.
The spider was sold for the fabulous price of $550.000
(Excl. auction costs)..."
Click here for the complete article.
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win the third prize at the beautiful Concours d'Elegance
in Villa d'Este (Italy), with a Lancia Aurelia B24 Spider
America.
Click here
for beautiful pictures.
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| Aurelia
Spider first prize winner in Essen, Germany
At one of Europe's biggest classic car
motorshows (in Essen Germany), a beautiful Lancia Aurelia
B24 Spider America wins the first prize for most beautiful
car (Spider) of the show. This is a big compliment for the
Aurelia Spider. This prize has been chosen by the public,
out of more than 1000 cars. Below you can see some nice
pictures.
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2005: "Again
new record price for a Lancia B24 Spider America at Monaco
auction.
A
beautiful Spider was sold for a spectacular EUR 242.000
(incl. auction cost)..."
Read
here the complete article.
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B 24 wins Concours d'elegance at "Het Loo" palace
2004
Also this year I was present at "Het
Loo" palace. This time I featured with a beautiful
Lancia Aurelia B 24 SPIDER AMERIKA, construction year 1955.
I participated in the "Latin Masterpieces"
class, against 14 other masterpieces, a.o. Ferrari 275,
Ferrari 250 Boano, Alfa Romeo 2500 6C, Lamborghini 400gt,
Cistalia 202, Cuningham c3 (Vignale), all in contest condition.
De jury judged unanimous: The Lancia Aurelia
B 24 Spider is an absolute masterpiece and overall winner.
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Click
here to see an authentic 1955 bro-chure from the Aurelia
Spider.
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Here you can read two articles
about the worlds most beautiful Lancia cars.
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Two
articles about the worlds most beau-tiful Lancia
cars.
When you click on the image above,
you can read a complete article from Autovisie magazine
(1999) in Dutch, and when you click on the image
on the left you can read an English article from
Classic Cars maga-zine (1998).
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| Lancia Aurelia B24S Spyder America Favoured
transport of the era's 'jeunesse dorée', the glamorous
Lancia B24 Aurelia Spyder America was built just in 1954/5
and only 240 ever left Lancia’s Turin works. Until
1954 Lancia had concentrated on producing innovative, high
performance motor cars for the European market, but in acknowledgement
of the growing US market, in 1954 they introduced left-hand
cars to their model range for the first time (until then
wealthy European buyers had favoured right-hand drive).
Aimed squarely at the lucrative yet demanding US market
for open sports cars, the new Aurelia Spyder America was
offered from late 1954 featuring the mechanical underpinnings
of the race proven B20GT (popular with Grand Prix drivers
of the era and a giant killer in events such as the Mille
Miglia) clothed in voluptuous new two seater coachwork by
master carrozziere Pinin Farina. Distinctive touches included
the panoramic windscreen, removable side screens and skimpy
soft top, stylish quarter bumpers only and a soft, flowing
wing line which would influence the design of other Italian
sports cars (such as Pinin Farin’s California Spyder
for Ferrari) later in the 1950s. Of just 240 Spyder Americas
built, 181 were left hand drive B24S models (‘S’
for ‘sinistra’) and the remaining 59 were right-hand
drive B24 models. A number of brand new Spyders destined
for the USA were lost on the ill-fated ocean liner Andrea
Doria, which contributes to the model’s low survival
rate: perhaps 150 cars are believed to survive worldwide
today.
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