Lancia Aurelia B50 Coupé Vignale

Vehicle Overview

The Lancia Aurelia B50 Coupé Vignale, with its distinctive Michelotti design, clearly illustrates the ‘transatlantic’ themes running through Italian car design in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. This is especially noticeable in the exuberant and expressive use of chrome trim. This car has the first series 1,750cc single carburetor engine, not known for its power, but possessed of adequate torque to make the car eminently driveable in modern highway traffic. Chassis number B50-1406, was ordered in the Spring of 1951 from Lancia by a main agent in Novara (Piedmont) Italy, who made something of a specialty of Vignale bodied Lancias. It was delivered in the early fall of 1951, to a wealthy resident of Alessandria (Piedmont) Italy and it was shown at the 1951 Geneva Motor Show. Only 3 Lancia Aurelia B50 Coupé Vignale  with this body survived. Vignale also built also a Riley RMB with the same body.