Fast and Expensive Lancia Delta
Fun with graphics, colors, and details. All photographed at Greenwich Concours show, 2021
The Lancia Delta were factory built, 4 wheel drive rally race cars, expensive and very fast. And not unlike NASCAR, to be qualified, a certain number of street versions had to be built in order to be approved. The race versions were 4 cylinder small displacements, and both turbocharged and supercharged, and put out an outrageous about of horsepower. The combined boost from both systems provided both excellent low rpm power and high rpm power throughout it's entire range. The suspensions were optimized for racing and the cars were configured with engines near mid point of the car. And they weren't cheap with prices over $300,000 dollars when new. Today, you likely would see one going for over a million dollars at auction. The one above, or the piece of it, was a street version of the car, one of few produced. I do have full pics of the car, and a few of a race version if the interest level warrants putting them up...let me know
Fast and Expensive Lancia Delta
Fun with graphics, colors, and details. All photographed at Greenwich Concours show, 2021
The Lancia Delta were factory built, 4 wheel drive rally race cars, expensive and very fast. And not unlike NASCAR, to be qualified, a certain number of street versions had to be built in order to be approved. The race versions were 4 cylinder small displacements, and both turbocharged and supercharged, and put out an outrageous about of horsepower. The combined boost from both systems provided both excellent low rpm power and high rpm power throughout it's entire range. The suspensions were optimized for racing and the cars were configured with engines near mid point of the car. And they weren't cheap with prices over $300,000 dollars when new. Today, you likely would see one going for over a million dollars at auction. The one above, or the piece of it, was a street version of the car, one of few produced. I do have full pics of the car, and a few of a race version if the interest level warrants putting them up...let me know