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...book, The Kings of the Road, he says flatly that any man who wouldn't rather pay out of pocket for an "Aurelia" model Italian Lancia than receive a Cadillac as a gift "just doesn't know how to live...
Horsy Movement. Author Purdy is not living on all cylinders himself, because he does not yet own a Lancia (only a handful of U.S. fanciers do), but by Kings of the Road standards he is not doing so badly: he owns and drives a 1927, two-seater Bugatti. He also owns an Isotta-Fraschini '28, a Peugot '14, and even a comparatively Johnny-come-lately Citroën 1939. He has also owned a Mercer Raceabout two-seater, vintage 1912, a real American beau ty. To drive a 1912 Mercer, says Purdy, is to feel "the movement...
...like an old house, gathers a personality-my friends dubbed my 1924 Lancia "Lord Calvert...
...sleek, blue Lancia with bright red wheels, pale-faced Dr. Alcide de Gasperi rode through Rome last week to the closing session of the interim consultative assembly. As the Foreign Minister's car passed the round, ancient bulk of the Castel Sant' Angelo, a pistol bullet smashed through the Lancia's front windows...
...Most of Europe's fancy automakers (Lancia, Fiat, Hispano-Suiza, Merc...