The Partnership between Pininfarina & Lancia
A short history about the partnership between Pininfarina and Lancia, and the design evolution.
The Lancia Astura Spider Pininfarina: the Flying Star copy.
This Lancia Astura Spider Pininfarina was presented at the 1935 Concours d’Elegance of Turin. Decored with Touring Superleggera’s trademark Comet on the body, this Lancia Astura Roadster was presented by Pininfarina at the 1935 Concours d’Elegance of Turin, it was clearly inspired by the Flying Star series.
A short history about the partnership between Pininfarina and Lancia, and the design evolution.
The Flying Star is a type of body created by Touring Superleggera introduced at the 1931 Milan Auto Show on a Isotta Fraschini 8B chassis which gained a great success. It was also adapted to other chassis maintaining the same basic settings. The trademark elements of this kind of bodywork were basically a thick chrome strip on the side that starts from the radiator, runs along the entire car forming a ‘V’ at the doors and descends on the tail.
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Was the “comet tail” registered by Touring? Maybe, back in time it was just a fashion thing and not considered related to Touring