From Auto Italia, 2022: Lancia Fulvia Sport

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I realise that, technically, this is a Lancia Fulvia Sport.  However, the Sport variant is almost universally known as the Zagato, in honour of the design house that built and manufactured the car for Lancia, based on the Fulvia coupe platform.  

The Sport shown here - photographed by the Canberra Correspondent at Auto Italia, 2022 - is absolutely immaculate.  Its low-slung, rakish lines are also a huge departure from the aforementioned coupe with its quite upright look - and its frankly boxy in-house designed four door - or Berlinetta - sibling, which is a testament to Zagato's styling genius.   

One of the most comprehensive guides to the Sport can be found on UK You Tube channel Harry's Garage (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIB5XXHNAWWzTOw6guIMYCg/videos), which charts the trials and tribulations of what started as a light freshen-up but ended up being a total rebuild of the eponymous Harry's own example.  One of the most fascinating aspects of the restoration is the revelation that as hand-built cars, no two Sports are exactly alike and that fit and alignment issues were often resolved with sometimes quite generous body-filler at the factory, when the car was being built!    

There are at least two gorgeous Sports gracing southern Tasmania's roads:  Mike's gorgeous period modified car (https://uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-cars-of-festa-italia-hobart-2020.html & https://uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com/2015/11/classics-by-beach-1st-of-november-2015.html) and a second in ostensibly standard trim (https://uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com/2015/06/classics-by-beach-07-june-15.html).  There are also several Fulvia coupes - including a couple of HFs - and a Berlinetta, too, featured on this 'blog; just use the search facility at the top of the page to find them.






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