Debut in Salvarola Terme for the Diatto 20S
The Concours d'Elegance Trofeo Salvarola Terme, inaugurated in 2018. This year like the past one the event, has gathered high level cars, dedicating a great space for Fiat. Winner of the Best in Show was the Fiat 1500 Cabriolet Pinin Farina of 1940.
The Lopresto Collection has chosen Salvarola for the debut of a pre-war masterpiece which restoration has just completed.
It is the Diatto 20S Torpedo "Bateau" of 1923 with bodywork of the french Mouche&Cie. Greatest example of style of the "Roaring 20s" this elegant car has been brought back in Italy from Japan and restored in the original color but keeping intact the original interior. The mechanics, in the 20S sport version is the one which Alfieri Maserati drove a the time, official driver of Diatto.
The Lancia Sibilo at the Salone di Ginevra 2018
In the most important car show of Europe, the protagonists are not the last news anymore, but also the extraordinary models of the past. This year at the Salone di Ginevra, that takes place from the 8th until the 18th of March, different exhibitors have brought historic cars and a particular stand displays a selection of concept-car in a review dedicated to deisgn.
It is the "Le retour du futur" and among the displayed cars, you can admire the two masterpiece of Bertone as the Lamborghini Marzal of '67 and the Lancia Sibilo of '78 in addition to the Maserati Birdcage 75th Pininfarina, presented in 2005, and three rare Bizzarrini: the Manta, work first of Italdesign in 1968 and the P538 and the Ghepardo of 2005.
In Milan the second Riunione Motoristica
“D'Annunzio, libri e motori, non qui a impolverarsi…”
After the success of the first Riunione Motoristica, that took place in the 6th of January in the historic Vittoriale degli Italiani, the pre-war cars were back to be admired in Milan on Thursday 8th of March.
The event was named "D'Annunzio, libri e motori, non qui a impolverarsi" was organized by the Lopresto Collection with the support of CMAE and the patronage of Milan municipality.
Great success for the first Riunione Motoristica del Garda
Success above the expectations for the Riunione Motoristica del Garda organized by Corrado Lopresto to ingaurate a new year of events for historic cars.
Almost forty cars gathered in the 6th of January for a stroll that started from the suburb of Milan, where the headquarter of the Lopresto Collection is, and arrived in Gardone Riviera for a visit at the Vittoriale, residence of Gabriele D'Annunzio.
