If exotic Italian cars are your thing, a rally-spec Lancia Fulvia is likely to be on your must-have list.
Rare in any trim, a top-of-the-range competition-spec car in right-hand-drive is like the proverbial hens teeth.
In a feature on the Fulvia we noted: “The birth of the coupe Fulvia could be traced back to 1962, when Lancia first gave the two-door project the go-ahead. An in-house design headed by Piero Castagnero, it used a 150mm-shorter wheelbase than the Berlina and made its debut at the Turin Motor Show in 1965.
“Perhaps the greatest Fulvia was the 1584cc, 1.6 HF which debuted in 1968. The ‘stradale’ (road) version came with 86kW but it was the tuned 98kW ‘Fanalone’ (big-headlight) version which most fired the imagination.”
This example runs the factory 1.6lt V4 matched to a five-speed manual transmission.
The Healey Factory in Melbourne has it on the market at $210,000.