Regular contributor Hugo Modderman came up with another of his entertaining tales last week. It’s a story of a Lancia Artena that has been in the family for quite a while. Hugo wrote: “It was around 7 pm on a summer evening in 1959 that we were having dinner in the kitchen when we saw a military police officer walking up the drive. We joked: Dad, they are coming to arrest you (my father was a reserve in the army). The man politely asked my father whether he wanted an old Lancia. “No thank you very much, I already have an old Lancia”, he said. The officer replied: “What a shame, the garage told me you were a Lancia aficionado. It is too old for me to use for border controls. If you don’t want it, it will be scrapped. My father then walked down to the street and came to an agreement with the officer, swapping the car against an old VW Beetle."
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