Word: lancia
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...good part after another in a series of better-than-average Italian films. But the higher, she goes, the harder Gina has to work. She and Mirko have formed three corporations to handle her career and investments, and they have permitted themselves only two extravagances: a glaring red Lancia Aurelia and a pink stucco villa on Via Appia Antica, right next door to the place where the Empress Poppaea used to take her daily bath in the milk of 300 asses. They have planted 300 trees on the grounds, laid out broad English lawns, strewn the area with ancient paving...
...Only U.S.-built car that can challenge in classic road-racing the Ferrari and Lancia of Italy, the Jaguar of Britain, and the Mercedes-Benz of Germany...
...recent years, suffered a crippling blow when its No.¹ driver, Giuseppe ("Nino") Farina, in one of its hot, new 4.9-liter cars, cracked up-and out. Farina escaped with a broken arm and nose. With the top opposition out of the way, World Champion Alberto Ascari, driving a Lancia over the rain-slick course, roared home first, half an hour ahead of the field. Average speed: 86.6 m.p.h. It was the first Lancia victory in seven years. It was also the first time that World Champion Ascari had ever managed to finish a car in the grueling race...
...Pope-Toledo, Darracq, Simplex and Locomobile, such still familiar ones as Mercedes and Fiat. The driver lists included such U.S. professionals as Barney Oldfield, Ralph de Palma, such millionaire amateurs as William K. Vanderbilt himself and Spencer Wishart, such Europeans as Jenatzy, first man to exceed 60 m.p.h., Lancia, Nazzaro, Victor Hemery and Louis Chevrolet. But the toplofty language of the racing notices enraged many a Long Island citizen from the first: "All persons are warned against using the roads between the hours of 5 a.m. and 3 p.m. . . . Chain your dogs and lock up your fowl." By 1910, more...
...looked as though it was the Lancias' day, after all. Taruffi's No. 38 was well out in front, nine full laps (46 miles) ahead of the next car. In second place, but hopelessly behind, was Briggs Cunningham's third entry, a little (1.452 cc.) Italian Osca alternately driven during the day by Britain's Stirling Moss and Connecticut's Bill Lloyd. But with only an hour to go, Taruffi's Lancia ground to a halt. In the Cunningham pits, where the Osca driver could see it when he flashed by, they held...