Winter car
10/30/2024
In the old days, people still had winter cars. I remember one of my colleagues buying a new Alfa Romeo Spider (Aerodinamica model) around 40 years ago. And after one summer, he thought the car was too good for winter use.
So he bought an inexpensive car for the winter, which was still full of salt and grit, a Lancia Beta HPE. With a few years under its belt, this Lancia was very reasonably priced and, thanks to its front-wheel drive, was also sufficiently suitable for winter use. It was also practical with its large tailgate. And it almost certainly didn't survive too many of those harsh winters and was then probably consigned to the scrapyard.
That was the fate of many cars back then, which is why they are so rare today. Like this Lancia Beta HPE from 1976 in the color "Bleu Antibes" shown here. When else do you see such an early Lancia Beta HPE?
Of course, we wanted to photograph it immediately. It will grace the cover of the next but one SwissClassics Revue, which will be published at the end of January. And in another way, it will also become a winter car again. May it enjoy many more decades! A great car.
