LANCIA: TECHNOLOGY MEETS ARTISTRY As might be expected for an automaker founded by an engineer and racing driver, Lancia, established by Vincenzo Lancia in 1906, prioritized technological innovation, performance, and quality from its earliest days.

This approach bore bountiful fruit in motorsport, with Lancia’s epic history of competition success needing little introduction here.

Naturally, when Lancia applied this same uncompromising formula to larger and more luxurious cars, the results were no less spectacular—and this breathtaking 1936 Lancia Astura Cabriolet Series III “Tipo Bocca,” with its unique bodywork by Pinin Farina, represents the very best of the marque’s ample pre-war capabilities.

The Lancia Astura was introduced in in November 1931 as a replacement for the flagship Dilambda, and it would be built in four series before production ceased in 1939.

Reflecting a new Italian nationalism, Lancia broke their precedent of assigning their cars the letters of the Greek alphab...