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Old Pre-War cars aren’t at all boring—they just need to be driven, hard
Made To Drive | S08 E02
This Lancia Delta S4 Is A Ballet Of Brutality
For John Campion, rally cars are all that’s left to collect and cherish
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Made To Drive
SEASON 03: EPISODE 02
There are many ways to enjoy your toys, from driving, to racing, to keeping them in a collection, there are various avenues to gaining pleasure from what you own. For Bob Sirna, this comes from racing at the salt flats of Bonneville. Many different types of cars run at Bonneville, but Bob chooses a car that you wouldn't ever expect to be racing, let alone down a strip of metal-eating salt: a Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing. Now fetching over a million dollars, the 300SL is a car that you mainly see at a concourse or in a museum—not trying to break land speed records at Speed Week. For the last 12 years Bob has been bringing his Gullwing to the salt in an effort to break records and cure his "salt fever." Bob likes to say, "Enjoy your toys," and this is a motto we can stand behind.
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Perhaps unusually, however, its owner enjoys the car in beautiful Peru
Lancia
The most successful car in the history of the rallying also gave the enthusiast market a wide range of high-performance hatchbacks for the road, culminating in this bellicosely box-flared Delta.
Purpose-built to dominate rally stages and destined to win championships, the Lancia Stratos project also spawned a veritable street-legal UFO, the HF Stradale.
Borrani all but defined the center-lock wheel in the early days, and those traditions of handmade excellence and artfulness live on today.
