Auto Italia - Italian Car Day Saturday, April 30, 2011

[Dilambdaman]

Sorry to have missed you all today but Modestine threw a hissey fit 10 miles into the journey missing and back firing all over the place. Sorted it this afternoon but very disappointed not to make it. 

Robin.

[TonyLanciaBeta]

great day, fantasic weather such a shame about your car Robin
here is my photo offering from the day
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonysphotos/sets/72157626491471299/with/5675965148/

[thecolonel]

It was a fine day out, great turn out of cars as usual.

Geoff

[bruciebonuz]

Great day, thanks to Neil for the organisation and great photos as usual Tony.   Hopefully see lots of you at Goodwood and fingers crossed the weather is as good as last year.

[Neil]

Thanks for all who attended yesterday, one of the best Auto Italia days yet!  Sorry Robin you had problems with Modestine and had to turn back, but glad you fixed it later on, see you at Goodwood in a few weeks time.

[ben]

Fully endorse the big thank-you to Neil for his organisational efforts for this event.
The line up of Integrale's in the Lancia parking area was stupendous.
Only downer was being held up through the twisty bits by one of them in the track demo!

           Ben   (Appia; 816 XUT)

[zagatoboy]

Hi Ben,
That was me! lol but you knew what i was doing? we had the learner pace car driver, the Fiat 500's were quicker! still, all good fun and yes a brilliant day.
Tony.

[Andy D]

I've been to Brooklands several times before but this was the first one as a Lancia owner which made it a bit more special!  Here are some more photos from me - I did endeavour to get pics of all the Lancias but I may have missed one or two of the latecomers...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8165854@N08/sets/72157626490886349/

Andy

[Scott]

Yes, this was a really good day out. Nice to see so many Italian cars ... and Lancias especially.

Here are a couple I took of the nice Fulvia Coupé HF Fanalone...

[bruciebonuz]

Thanks for posting the photos - thats me in the Fanalone - my first outing since purchasing it - have to say it was a lot of fun to drive and hopefully will be the first of many good days out.

Nice video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtfVhqGuJtU

[peterbaker]

Im really jealous, sounds like a really good day out. I was at Donington where the Lancia LC2 was competing in the Group C Race. Good news it lasted the distance and will be at Spa for the next round of the 1,000km Series. Sat race featured a whole bunch of Lola T70s but was stopped when Frank Sytner crashed following a heart attack. he received attention trackside and was then transferred to Derby Hospital where I believe he is in an induced coma. I will put up images of LC2 when home.

[Neil]

Some of Saturday's pictures.

[sparehead3]

Is the 'van' sporting LMC stickers on the doors now ? Nice to see it got into the central bit !

[Neil]

Steve, yes it is wearing two new stickers on the doors c/o Will, we managed/asked Auto Italia if we could park it in the paddock area they agreed, so we got there early on Saturday morning to get a good spot for it.

[Rob]

What a great Day  . It was my first time at this event & I thought it was a belter! There were lots of tasty lancias to look at, aswell as all the other Italian marques. Well done Ben for having a go at the test hill in his little Appia, the crowd  gave him plenty of encouragement as he reached the top. Thanks to Simon for giving me a lift there in his Delta HF HPE, it was good to see her out of the garage for a change  .
                Cheers,
                          Rob