Restoration of Lancia Aurelia B52 PF200

The American collector Bill Pope decided to entrust the conservative restoration of his car, a Lancia Aurelia B52 PF200, to the Pininfarina Special Projects division. A total of 5 examples of this model were built early in the 1950s, each one different. The car has an important place in motoring history for two reasons, one technical and the other industrial: it was the last car to be developed on floorpans supplied to the coachbuilder by the carmaker. In the years that followed, the technical development and rising costs led to the demise of custom-built coachworks and, for Pininfarina in particular, the decision to take the giant step of industrialising the workshops and building the Grugliasco plant to produce the Giulietta Spider.