Think of a Lancia Beta, and you mainly see the beautiful coupé, nice Spider or perhaps the special HPE in front of you. The less striking Trevi is less popular as a classic, but this blue one seems to be pampered just as well.
The Lancia Beta Trevi appeared on the market in 1980, eight years after the first Beta appeared. The bodywork of this car designed by Pininfarina looks very different from the rest of the highly varied Beta range. With its traditional sedan shape it is less controversial, but at the same time it is also unmistakably an Italian car. The Trevi, which would later lose the addition ‘Beta’, also had an Italian amount of horsepower. Even the simplest version came to more than 100 pieces, quite a lot for the early 80s.
This blue Trevi dates from 1982 and is therefore still a real ‘Beta Trevi’. It concerns a 1600, equipped with the aforementioned basic engine with 101 hp. The blue color looks great on it, just like the silver strip on the tailgate. Although according to eyewitnesses this car regularly has to sleep on the street, it looks nothing short of perfect. The body is tight as a string, the paint is like new and even the steel wheels seem to be blemish-free. The special Lancia has had a Dutch registration since 2018 and has not changed owners since.
Nice detail: on the rear window is a sticker with the text ‘Campione Del Mondo, Marche Endurance 1981′. This is a reference to Lancia’s constructors’ title in 1981 in the World Sportscar Championship, a championship for long-distance racing. The title was certainly not achieved with a Trevi, but by a Beta derivative. The Lancia Monte Carlo Turbo was thus very successful on the circuits, but also served as the basis for the legendary Lancia Rally 037, the Group B rally weapon of the Italians. How much has changed in thirty years …