 Don't think Hugo Modderman was quite finished with his Lancia Artena tale, here is his follow up on yesterday's story. Hugo wrote: "In 2012 my friend and car historian Hans Veenenbos had found a website where people post automobile photographs that they find in family albums. He saw a strange looking Lancia, sent me the link and asked me if I knew what type it was. It turned out to be my car! Through the website I got in touch with the little girl, now not so little anymore and living in Curaçao, sitting in the car in Bennekom at around 1946. She told me her grandfather H.M.B. Jantzen had bought the car new while living in Meran. The car then had numberplate 3023 BZ (for Bolzano). He used the car frequently for travelling to the Netherlands, mostly via France. His nephew Jorn Jantzen must have owned the car in the 1950s and sold it in 1956 via a garage in the Balistraat in The Hague to mister Kengen from whom we bought it in 1959." "What's more: When I took it apart many years this sign (picture 2) was hidden behind the number plate. So far no one has been able to tell me who made it and why. Mister Jantzen drove the Artena on Italian plates and when he took it to The Netherlands he avoided Germany. Perhaps he wanted to show the French he was no mere fan of Mussolini and Co? Remarkably, it’s been cast in aluminium, which may indicate that more than just the one were made. So far I haven’t been able to find out more. Perhaps readers here will be able to share their knowledge?" Come in, readers! |
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