The Lancia Zagato was a two-door coupe with two bucket seats up front and “occasional” seating for two in the rear. It had a Targa-type rollover hoop, but included fixed side window frames. One can remove the roof hatch rather like a sunroof. But it had one more trick, a drop-down, canvas framed rear window. This let seat ‘passengers’ enjoy the fresh air as if they were in a convertible.
This body style had been available on BMW 2002’s in Europe, but had only come to America on the Lancia by way of Zagato, the famous Italian coachbuilding firm. Zagato took delivery of the Beta body from Lancia and made the conversion to a convertible.
This handsome, fwd 2+2 was Lancia’s only U.S. entry for 1982.
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