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Title: Solved FW #18 Lancia Aprilia Zagato 1938, Eugenio Minetti, TT Donington
Post by: fromwien on October 25, 2020, 05:58:06 PM
Please identify this car: Make? Type? Coachbuilder? Race? Driver? Year?

Good luck!
Title: Re: FW #18
Post by: 727 on October 26, 2020, 03:32:52 AM
Lancia Aprilia by Zagato, I think the picture is from around 1938? I found an identical #32 but not #27
Title: Re: FW #18
Post by: fromwien on October 26, 2020, 09:03:19 AM
Locked for you! Perfect found!
It is a Lancia Aprilia Zagato and it raced in 1938! Now you have three trials to find the race and car's driver....
Title: Re: Locked for 727 FW #18
Post by: 727 on October 27, 2020, 04:17:33 AM
Was the driver Luigi Villoresi?
Title: Re: Locked for 727 FW #18
Post by: fromwien on October 27, 2020, 05:16:00 AM
No, far less known than Villoresi
Title: Re: Locked for 727 FW #18
Post by: 727 on October 27, 2020, 05:47:23 AM
I've been digging with no results.  :(
Feel free to unlock.
Title: Re: Locked for 727 FW #18
Post by: fromwien on October 27, 2020, 07:36:54 AM
I will give you a hint: The first letter of the surname is an M, followed by six letters....
Title: Re: FW #18
Post by: fromwien on October 29, 2020, 10:13:47 AM
Sorry, but unlocked...
Title: Re: FW #18
Post by: 727 on November 12, 2020, 01:13:20 PM
 Eugenio Minetti?
Title: Re: FW #18
Post by: fromwien on November 12, 2020, 01:30:26 PM
Yes! Correct! You have it! There is now only a short way to your most deserved point: Where did he race #27 in 1938? Should be very easy now...
Locked for you
Title: Re: Locked for 727 FW #18
Post by: 727 on November 12, 2020, 01:42:26 PM
Targa Abruzzi, Pescara, Italy.
Title: Re: Locked for 727 FW #18
Post by: fromwien on November 12, 2020, 01:48:15 PM
No, not Targa Abruzzi, Pescara. And not Italy!
Title: Re: Locked for 727 FW #18
Post by: 727 on November 12, 2020, 01:58:59 PM
 RAC Tourist Trophy (UK)?
Title: Re: Locked for 727 FW #18
Post by: fromwien on November 12, 2020, 02:47:06 PM
Yes! Tourist Trophy, Donington.
The point is yours!
Title: Re: Solved FW #18 Lancia Aprilia Zagato 1938, Eugenio Minetti, TT Donington
Post by: 727 on November 12, 2020, 05:32:22 PM
Thank you  :)
Title: Re: Solved FW #18 Lancia Aprilia Zagato 1938, Eugenio Minetti, TT Donington
Post by: fromwien on November 12, 2020, 05:40:38 PM
Here within the reason, why I insisted to name the driver (copy from another website) with this puzzle:
'...Eugenio Minetti (Milan, 1908-1995) was one of the founder of the Scuderia Ambrosiana of Milan with Cortese, Lurani and Villoresi. His father Enrico was the most important Lancia dealer in Italy since 1911, he was also the first to sell Lancias in the USA, opening a commercial office in the 6th street of New York in late '20s.
And Enrico Minetti was the man, who commissioned the construction of the three or four racing Aprilia Sport at Ugo Zagatos bodyshop. All these cars have been destroyed due to WW II. To celebrate the centenary of Lancia (2006) Andrea Zagato decided to create a Lancia Aprilia Sport identical to the car his grandfather Ugo built in 1938.