1947 Mostra della Carrozzeria Italiana
The Desire for Rebirth It is 1947; the war has just ended, with all the material and moral destruction it entailed. The desire to…
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- 1947 Villa d'Este
Lancia Astura Cabriolet Farina
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#3271
This particular Lancia has been built by Stabilimenti Farina on a III series long chassis Astura.
Vehicle Overview
Giovanni Michelotti designed the body and Mario Revelli di Beaumont the interior and the dashboard. The car was enrolled to the 1947 Villa d’Este elegance concours where won the Best in show prize, surprisingly, in front of the Cisitalia 202 and other modern cars. It was the last testimonial of the “famboyant style” introduced in 1946 by the Stabilimenti Farina and the Ghia designers. This post war period (1946-49) was very difficult in Italy because the Allied bombings destroyed most of the factories. The coachbuilders offered new bodies built on old chassis so the designers could not develop new shapes yet. Two similar cabriolets have been built, but only one is still in existance.
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MakeLancia
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ModelAstura Cabriolet
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CoachbuilderStabilimenti Farina
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The Flamboyant Car Design
Between 1946 and 1950 Ghia, Stabilimenti Farina and Pininfarina proposed a limited series of car bodies with a low and flowing line whose most striking feature were the covered wheel arches on the front and rear, a solution that required to widen the car to allow steering. These cars had opulent shapes, built on the chassis of various brands and conceived with the primary function of showing off the main elegance competitions so widespread at the time (Ghia’s creations made a sensation at the “Jour d’Elegance” in Lausanne in 1946).