The Lancia Appia was a small sedan produced by Lancia from 1956 to 1963. The first Appia series produced 38 hp and a top speed of 75 mph. The second series followed in 1956, featuring an elongated wheelbase and a new luggage compartment. Power had been increased to 43 horsepower bringing top speeds of nearly 80 mph.

With the introduction of the second series, Lancia began selling the further upgraded 53 HP chassis to Italian coachbuilders. Pininfarina was chosen to build a coupe and Vignale was commissioned to produce both a 2 + 2 Lusso and a convertible. Sold directly by Lancia.

After the 1956 prototype nicknamed “Camel”, Zagato then began to produce Appia bodies (the GTZ in 1957 and then the GT in early 1958). These have never been marketed by Lancia itself and some owners call them “out of series” Appia.

The prototype of 1956 Appia Cammello, nicknamed “camel”, remains a single example. In early 1957 Zagato built another 30 Appia, which remained somewhat similar to the first Camel, but lost the humps on the hood and trunk lid, wore thin vertical fins on the rear wings and Plexiglas-coated headlights, and got a new grid that would set the model for the entire future Appia Zagato.

Two Appia Zagato models were produced from 1957-58: the first was the sportier Appia GTZ / GTS, with faired headlights, a more aerodynamic body, often a double bubble roof. Powered by a 60hp, 1,089cc V-4 engine with Weber carburetor. Four-speed manual transmission. They are distinguished by “shaped” wheel arches, the addition of “fins” on the rear fenders, more “sunken” headlights, slightly different bumpers and more basic equipment. After the GTZ was the Appia GT 2 + 2, with the open headlights carried over from the Appia sedan, and the same 53hp engine found on models from other coachbuilders.

Both GT and GTZ / GTS were produced in very small numbers. Some sources claim that only 39 GTZs and GTs were made. Some sources claim that 50 GTZs and GTs were produced, of which about 20 were GT types and 30 were GTZs.

The Appia GT was replaced by the new generation Appia Zagato in 1958, when the Lancia Appia GTE (acronym for Gran Turismo Esporto) was introduced as the first Zagato car to be included in the Lancia price lists and sold by Lancia dealers.
Year 1957
Silver colour
Historic Auto Regularity Chip
Asi Oro
Participated in 1000 Miglia Re-enactments
Original plates