Antonio Fireball Lucente wins Historic Italian Championship in 1300 GTS class and reaches the second position in general classification of 1° Group (cars of any cylinder capacity made from 1947 to 1965).

Fireball drives a Volkswagen Beetle 1300 model year 1965, prepared for Special Grand Touring, managed by E.R. Racing team.

Engine is prepared by Antonio Russo, the man with the magic wrenches: It has reached top speed of 180 Km/h.

Chassis is prepared by technical staff of “Autocarrozzeria La Basentana”, a garage specialized in restoring of old cars.

The Historic Italian Championship, managed from Peroni Group Race, was composed from 9 races.

Fireball won 5 races; he didn’t take part in 2 races; he retired in 2 races for mechanical failure.

The cars against which he fought were the Alfa Romeo GT 1300 and Fiat 128 Rally 1300.

Sometimes, he was able to stay in front of cars of a cylinder capacity exceeding, like MG 1500, BMW 1602 or Alfa Romeo GT 1600.

On wet races, Fireball gave the best of himself.

In next year, he will continue to ride in this championship, with his super beetle.

“I would to dedicate the victory of this championship to all my fans and Maggiolino Club Italia” – Antonio Lucente says.

Special thanks to Compagnia Italiana Lubrificanti (Vanguard super motor oil), Mago Maggiolino (special spare parts for Volkswagen Beetle), Emodiva Academy, B-Controller, Very Consult, Arti Grafiche “Il Segno”, Pasion.de and ShedirPharma.

It seems this car sold only 3hrs after it appeared on thesamba.com, crazy cool real early body bumper 356…

Picture credit to my friend Tom Niedernhofer! Enjoy your Sunday!

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