Photo by Richard Lentinello.
Ask a bunch of students to design a car and you're guaranteed to end up with some unconventional results. Actually produce any of those unconventional results and you're likely to end up with a striking car like the 1952 Pegaso Z-102 Cupola, a car that the International Historic Motoring Awards recently shortlisted for 2016 Car of the Year.
One of eight candidates for Car of the Year, the Pegaso is also one of two Cupolas built by in-house coachbuilder Enasa. First displayed at the 1953 New York Auto Show, the Cupola got its name from the bulging bubble-back body style. It then sold to Dominica President Rafael Trujillo, who entered it in the 1954 La Carrera Panamericana, and remained with him through his 1961 assassination. It emerged again, painted silver, in the mid-1980s and in 2006 sold to the Louwman Museum in the Netherlands, which restored the Cupola to its original yellow-with-red-sidewall-tires livery and then displayed it at this year's Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance, where it won Best in Show, Concours de Sport.
Photo courtesy FIVA.
Other nominees for this year's Car of the Year Award include the half-n-half 1961 Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ Coda Tronca prototype that Italian collector Corrado Lopresto displayed at this year's Villa d'Este Concours d'Elegance in both as-found and preserved condition to win the FIVA Preservation Award; the 1937 Talbot-Lago T150C with which Peter Mullin won this year's inaugural Peninsula Classic Best of the Best Award, presented at The Quail, A Motorsport Gathering; Neville Swales's reproduction of the Jaguar XJ13 Le Mans racer in its original configuration; the 1955 Jaguar D-Type that sold for $21.78 million in August to become the most expensive British car sold at auction; Sir Henry Segrave's Sunbeam Tiger land-speed racing car; the Alfa Romeo 8C-based Disco Volante Spider by Touring; and the Ford GT40 Mk II that won Le Mans in 1966.
Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company.
Previous Car of the Year winners include the Fiat S76 "Beast of Turin;" the 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe, CSX 2287, that took the first spot in the National Historic Vehicle Register; and the 1931 "Birkin" Bentley 4.5-liter supercharged racer.
Voting for Car of the Year has begun on the International Historic Motoring Awards website. Nominees for the other IHMA awards categories, which include Motoring Event of the Year, Museum of the Year, and Restoration of the Year, will be announced shortly. The awards ceremony itself will take place November 17 in London's Guildhall. For more information on the awards, visit HistoricMotoringAwards.com.
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