A Unique Piece of Automotive History
If the car you see in the images here confounds you, that’s because it’s a seriously special one-off creation that’s currently available at Girardo & Co. Vignale had the opportunity to take the Lancia Aurelia chassis B52-1097 and craft some elegant Spider coachwork. The car is exquisitely detailed and it was displayed in 1955 at the Brussels Motor Show in Belgium at the Lancia stand.
The Lancia Aurelia was a was a rolling chassis. The company then made the chassis available to various coachbuilders. Carrozzeria Alfredo Vignale was one of the best coachbuilders out there in the early 1950s, having worked on Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Cisitalia, Maserati, and Fiat cars and well as Lancia. The company made the special Spyder you see here from a chassis that left the Lancia factory in 1953.
