https://automobilist.org/tags/vintage-motoring/ Recent content in Vintage Motoring on Automobilist.org Hugo en-us Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://automobilist.org/the-oldest-car-in-the-field-a-pre-war-tourer-on-a-sicilian-road/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://automobilist.org/the-oldest-car-in-the-field-a-pre-war-tourer-on-a-sicilian-road/ <p>There is a point at which a car stops being a classic and becomes a document. The two-tone cream and black open tourer photographed somewhere on the Sicilian rally route — wire wheels, fold-flat windscreen, running boards, coachbuilt bodywork in that particular interwar combination of cream upper panels over black fenders — has crossed that threshold. It belongs to the late 1920s, almost certainly to an Italian manufacturer given the event context, and the most likely candidates are a Lancia Lambda or a Fiat 521 or 522. The Lambda, produced between 1922 and 1931, would make it the older and more significant of the possibilities; the Fiat 521 series, which ran from 1928 to 1931, was the more common car.</p>