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Lancia wins at Elkhart
- B20 in the Awards area, with Ferrari and Rolls nearby.
This past weekend was the big vintage weekend at Elkhart Lake. The road cars were in a Saturday night concours hosted by Road & Track. The B20 nudged out in its class by a very nice 1933 Rolls Royce. There was also an excellent Ferrari TdF being shown. However, the B20 was chosen by Peter Egan of Road and Track as “The Car We’d Most Like to Drive”, one of their most significant awards of the weekend. He might have been influenced by John Lamm, his friend and colleague at R&T, a long time B20 owner. Peter appreciated the restoration and the crowd enjoyed the subtlety of the car and its subdued 1950s color, and that the car had been found in 1975, and only now being returned to good running order.
A number of other Lancista showed up for the very hot weekend but there was only one other Lancia – Neal Van Ess brought his Fulvia HF Fanalone, a car I had owned in the 1970s. It was good to see it again and take it for a drive. Bill and Cami Hall hosted the B20 at his lovely house, keeping his lovely Alfa early 1970’s Alfa berlin company. Bill provides a haven for Italian cars on the main street of Elkhart Lake – but his Fulvia isn’t quite running yet.
receiving award from Road and Track, Peter Egan on right.
You can see the video here: B20 gets an award (Youtube) . The fun starts happening at 3′ 00″.
Bill Hall’s unrestored 1972 Alfa berlina in front of the also unrestored 1904 Creamery nearby.
Millers at Milwaukee
One of the best events of the summer is the Miller fest at the Milwaukee Mile, on the weekend after 4th of July. Its typically hot but this year, the breeze was blowing and it was lovely. I’ve been going up there since 1996, when I took young Nathan (3 months) to meet Griff Borgeson. Wonderful people, truly committed folks, and only a few hundred show up so its a very personal event.
The cars are incredible, a real delight. This year was the 100th anniversary of the Vanderbilt Cup, and even more machinery showed up, including 4, 8 and 16 cylinder Millers, Delahayes, Isotta Fraschini, Duesenbergs, lay down Offy Indy cars, vintage Benz, Bugattis, 8C Alfas.
For more photos, click: Millers Milwaukee 2012 sml