C’Era Una Volta Il Safari – Storie Italiane D’Africa

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When we think of Safari, we all have in our eyes and hearts the images and stories of Miki Biasion and Tiziano Siviero, of Sandro Munari, of the Lancia Fulvia, Stratos, 037 and Delta. Of the Fiat 124 and 131 Abarth.

That is, of that top Italian motor vehicle that has been exalted – and has exalted us – in over twenty years: from the first landing of the Lancia in Africa, in 1969, until the third and last victory of the Turin House, conquered by Kankkunen in 1991, after the magnificent double of Biasion and Siviero in 88 and ’89.

Wonderful, exhilarating, beautiful and sometimes dramatic stories, just like the great race on which they were painted.

But that’s not all.

The Coronation Safari Rally – then East African Safari, so simply Safari Rally, to mention the three names that have followed each other from 1953 to today – is also much more.

The great stories, in fact, are flanked by a thousand small-great adventures lived by Italian and non-Italian crews, aboard Italian cars.

Models that, sometimes, it is difficult to imagine engaged in Safari, in what for them was a real struggle for survival.

We are talking about the Fiat 600, 850, 127, 128, 125, 1100, 1400, 1500, 1800, 2300.

But also the Alfa Romeo 1750 Coupé, Giulia Ti, Alfasud, Alfetta GTV.

They are the “other Italians”, cars that have helped to shape the tricolour presence in Africa, and that in the volume of Sergio Limone and Sergio Remondino are described, told, relived.

All accompanied by magnificent images, most of which come from the McKlein archive.