1933 Lancia Astura Torpedo Grand Sport
Chassis no.
30*2056
Engine no.
1066
Coachbuilder
Carrozzeria Castagna Milano
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1932
Record:
Lancia Astura Factory drawing
1933
Manufacturing
From 1933
to 1934
to 1934
Owner:
Arrigo Castagna (IT)
Famous owner:
Owner Carrozzeria Castagna
1933
1st and current interior
Seats:
White
1933
1st and current engine no. 1066
Manufacturer:
LANCIA SPA (IT)
Note:
Type 918 C, 17°30' V-type
1933
1st and current body
Coachbuilder:
Carrozzeria Castagna Milano
Type:
Double Phaeton
1933
1st and current chassis no. 30*2056
From 1934
to 1946
to 1946
Owner:
Doris Duke (US)
Famous owner:
Tobacco heiress
Note:
Mr. Ercole Castagna had a big show room in New York (together with Isotta Fraschini) managed by the engineer Veniero D'Annunzio, son of the great italian poet. Mr D'Annunzio managed to sell the extraordinary automobile to the famous, well known tobacco heiress from New Jersey, Doris Duke. She was called "the richest girl in the world". She bought the Astura for her husband James Henry Roberts Cromwell, an american displomat. She married him in 1935 when she was 22-years-old. Duke later married Porfirio Rubirosa. With this outstanding outcome, a colored picture was inserted in the Castagna's 1934 famous catalogue with a Gabriele D'Annunzio personal dedication. In 1935 the Astura was certainly in Washington D.C., then it has been seen also in New York, drived by the same driver in livery, with a couple of V.I.P. seated in the rear passenger's compartment. On that occasion the car color still was original one: avorio Lancia/Bambolina Bleu. During w.w. II° it was seen in Washington D.C., always drived by the same driver of the heiress (someone suggested that it had received in inherits).
1934
Record:
Catalogue
1934
Record:
Advertising
1934
Generic fact:
Other photos
From 1946
to 1955
to 1955
Owner:
Willy Brandt (US)
Famous owner:
Former founder of Brandt & Brandt togethger his brother Carl, later became Owner and publisher of "Saturday Evening Post"
Note:
Owner and publisher of "Saturday Evening Post"
From 1955
to 1960
to 1960
Owner:
Thomas Cecil Butt (US)
Famous owner:
Well-known surgeon
Note:
The car has sold, through the Speedcraft Enterprises, Exton, PA. to Dr. Thomas Cecil Butt, Orlando Florida, well-known surgeon with a prestigious collection of antique cars.Mr. Butt painted the car in italian red.
From 1960
to 1962
to 1962
Owner:
Vojta F. Mashek (US)
Famous owner:
Important car collector
Note:
The cars was sold by Dr. Butt to Mr. Vojta Mashek, Three Oaks, Michigan, after waiting and seeking for a long time .Mr. Mashek, a very important collector, submitted the car to a restoration and dispayd it with his other 57 antique cars, among the most prestigious in the world, in one of its special garages: Villas with characteristics different from each other and in the various european styles.
From 1962
to 1983
to 1983
Owner:
L. Scott Bailey (US)
Famous owner:
Publisher of the famous car magazine "Automobile Quarterly"
Note:
In 1962 L. Scott BaIley, publisher of the famous car magazine "Automobile Quarterly", manages to buy the car from the Mashek collection and paints the Astura with the colors he thought were the originals (the car was published on "Automobile Quarterly" Volume 12, 2 Pages central, N.A. 1974) and preserved as a treasure using it very little until 1983
From 1983
to 1991
to 1991
Owner:
Count Vittorio Zanon Di Valgiurata (IT)
Famous owner:
Count, married the daughted of Giacosa
Note:
In 1983 the Astura was sold to Conte Vittorio Zanon di Valgiurata, that brings it back finally in Italy, thanks to the friendship with Dr. Veniero Molari. Immediately resume the original color (no one hand never lifted completely the old paints). For the restoration of the interiors, the connoly supplied again the special skin of which there were still original fragment in the top receptacle seat. In that time were spent more then 15.000 USD to restore the wheels with rays chrome-plated: Work carried out by the company Borrani and the company Bertola.
1990
Generic fact:
Other photos
From 1991
to 22nd May 2023
to 22nd May 2023
Owner:
Guido Lamperti (IT)
1991
Plate:
TO-89796M
Country:
IT
November 1991
Press review:
Unknown Attenzione Duplicato, "Al Castello Di Miramare Nel Segno Della Perfezione", Ruoteclassiche , no. 45, 11-1991, pp. 96
February 1996
Press review:
Unknown author, "Elegante Con Brio", Ruoteclassiche , no. 92, 02-1996, pp. 14
September 1997
Press review:
Unknown author, "Eleganza Fuoriserie Nel Tigullio", Auto d'Epoca , 09-1997, pp. 10
September 1997
Press review:
Fiorucci Franco, "Divine In Terra E In Mare", Ruoteclassiche , no. 109, 09-1997, pp. 44
From 16th April 1998
to 19th April 1998
to 19th April 1998
Event:
Auto Italiana verso i cento anni
Locality:
Montecatini Terme (IT)
June 1998
Press review:
Deganello Elvio, "Parlano Tutte La Stessa Lingua", Ruoteclassiche , no. 118, 06-1998, pp. 40
15th May 2001
Identification document:
FIVA Identity Card no.: 17529 - Categorized: A3 - ASN that issued the certificate: ASI Automotoclub Storico Italiano - Owner's name: Private Collection - Owner's country: Italy
January 2008
Identification document:
Car manufacturers' heritage certificate - Lancia
From 24th September 2010
to 27th September 2010
to 27th September 2010
Event:
uniques special ones international concours
Locality:
Firenze (IT)
From 3rd December 2016
to 11th December 2016
to 11th December 2016
Event:
Bologna Motor Show
Locality:
Bologna (IT)
From 22nd May 2023
to currently
to currently
Owner:
Private collection