Lancia Aprilia Sport Recreated By Andrea Zagato
At the Bologna Motor show, Zagato has presented an old, but not outdated Lancia model, the Lancia Aprilia Sport created in 1938 by Andrea Zagato’s grandfather, Ugo.
Andrea Zagato has managed to reconstruct the 1938 model basicly from scratch, since the old model no longer exists. The only source of information for this project was represented by two faded black and white (monochrome) photographs, so without any hand drawn sketches, Zagato’s heir has done wonders. Of course, he had some help from CAD modelling and CNC machining technologies, but how many people would have even imagined to do something like that?
Even nowadays, this model Of Lancia Aprilia Sport looks very much like a cool car and the car’s shape in a single volume, resembling to a cross section of a wing makes it look like it’s about to fly. Maybe that was the intention of Ugo Zagato who was inspired by naval and aviation forms (aeronautical themes were frequent in the 1930s) and it sure looks like a fast car.
The reason for this spectacular reconstruction of this cool car is the celebration of the centenary of Lancia and of the long standing affiliation between the marque and the Milanese coachbuilder for its Sport versions.
The press release from Zagato says about the actual building process of this concept car that “the sheet metal of the bodywork was then skilfully hand crafted by master panel beaters, working on a solid, machined buck”.
