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Title: 1955 Lancia Aurelia B12....live auction ends in 13 days 7 hrs etc......in USA Post by: Parisien on 20 November, 2014, 03:09:09 PM http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1955-lancia-aurelia-b12/
P Title: Re: 1955 Lancia Aurelia B12....live auction ends in 13 days 7 hrs etc......in USA Post by: Parisien on 24 January, 2015, 12:28:20 PM Follow up to successful auction style sale of B12 in USA
http://bringatrailer.com/2015/01/23/bat-auction-success-story-lancia-for-a-lancia/ P Title: Re: 1955 Lancia Aurelia B12....live auction ends in 13 days 7 hrs etc......in USA Post by: Parisien on 24 January, 2015, 12:32:15 PM It then linked through to this page -
http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1955-lancia-aurelia-b12/ To find it sold for $59,000....3 bidders slogged it out from $45,000....34 bids in total! P Title: Re: 1955 Lancia Aurelia B12....live auction ends in 13 days 7 hrs etc......in USA Post by: chriswgawne on 25 January, 2015, 01:11:23 PM Car was originally prepared by Richard Thorne in the UK with, I think, a low compression engine for low octane fuel.
Quite where the 160 bhp claims in the bringatrailer words come from I really don't know. Gamberetti used to claim 165 bhp max for a full race twin Weber 2500cc B20 engine. And to cope with this, they insisted you needed a sintered paddle clutch with special springs and updated transaxle inner driveshafts. Chris |