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Verona Legend Cars: The Golden Years of Legendary Cars
VERONA LEGEND CARS
THE GOLDEN YEARS OF RALLYING AND THE LEGENDARY CARS
The Verona fair will be uniting passion for cars and the excitement for sport.
Words by Intermeeting
Photography: Gian Romero
VERONA “La sfida dei Campioni” (The Champions’ Challenge) will be a cross between legend and the present day. Along a circuit that is almost one kilometer long, covering fifteen thousand square meters inside the exhibition area, 8 rally legends will be meeting in 8 “starry” cars. There will be Miki Biasion, the only Italian driver to have won the World Rally Championship twice in a row. Alongside him will be his team mate from various occasions and eternal rival Juha Kankkunen with Alex Fiorio, Francois Delecour and other great drivers who experienced the most exciting rally era: the epic period from the 1980s to 1990s.
LEGENDARY CARS La “Sfida dei Campioni” will be a pursuit race between past and present with cars that range from the icons of the rally world – the Lancia Rally 037 and Lancia Delta Integrale – to the very new Abarth Rally 695 and Rally 124. Abarth is, indeed, the main sponsor of the event itself. The list of legendary cars, however, does not end here. The Alfa Giulia “designed by the wind” which arrived in 1962 like a comet, will be there too. There will also be a unique piece of Italian history: the Ferrari 250 GTE 2+2 Police Car driven, between 1962 and 1973, by the famous police officer Armando Spatafora.
CLUBS AND GATHERINGS ARE THE CORE OF THE EXHIBITION CENTRE Again this year the passion of the clubs will be one of the driving forces of Verona Legend Cars. In the pavilions and the 50,000 meters outside will gather: the Oldtimer Mercedes of the Stelle Cadenti Club, the SL Mercedes and Pagoda of the SL Classic Club the models of the Registro Italiano Fiat and the Officina Ferrarese and Jaguar with an exhibition of its most attractive cars, while a large 640 m2 stand will be set up for the 4 ASI Federate Clubs of Verona. These four clubs will take part together to the fair, each with a different facet of passion for cars: from Abarth to 70 years of Ferrari, from the 8 decades of Volkswagen to the legend of the Alfa Romeo. Those taking part in the gatherings have free entry to the show.
AN EUROPEAN MARKET – Alongside the displayed models, Verona Legend Cars will also host 1000 vintage cars on sale, coming from the best traders in Europe, encompassing many periods, prices and models. The specialist spare part dealers and the world of Vespa restoration complete the panorama of a show that hosts the whole spectrum of heritage passion.
SAVE THE DATE
“Sfida Dei Campioni” 6-7 May
PROGRAM
Saturday 6 May
Abarth 124 Rally: 15.00/15.30 pre-race sport checks
16.00/16.20 recognition tests
16.30/18.00 qualifications
Sunday 7 May
Abarth 695 rally: 10.30/11.30 quarter finals
Lancia Delta Integrale and Lancia Rally 037: 14.30/15.30 semi finals
Abarth 124 Rally: 16.00/16.30 finals
– 16.30 awards
NICOLIS MUSEUM
Lancia will also be among the main features at the exhibition thanks to the Nicolis Museum in Verona, which houses one of the most important heritage collections in Europe with over 300 vintage cars, motorbikes and bicycles and many other engineered items able to overcome distances, from musical instruments to the first petrol engine made in 1882 and a rare collection of F1 steering wheels. Lancia sports touring models will also feature at the Museum stand. These include an Aurelia GT 2500 B20 made in 1957. The model, presented in 1951 and built by Pininfarina, boasted a V6 engine. When, in 1951, it made its debut at the Mille Miglia, it came first in the up to 2 litre class and second overall.
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