1956 Lancia-Ferrari D50 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, England, 2002

Artist Notes:
"The Lancia D50 is the stuff of which legends are made. An innovative car for its time it had an unforgiving nature and gained the reputation for turning without mercy on the hapless driver. Unless you activately watched grand prix racing in the 1950s your only contact would be through period film footage and photographs. When Lancia was absorbed into Ferrari it was paid scant attention by the factory and rapidly fell out of favor. The order came from up high for the cars to be broken up and that appeared to be that. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes the D50 has been lovingly recreated as a series of replicas. Human nature being what it is the manufacturer started to get telephone calls from Northern Italy supposedly offering parts from the original cars."