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2026. 10. 12. 작업

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History LessonOne of the joys of old cars is trying to piece together their history.Fortunately, mine came with the original Carta di Circolazione issued in Palermo, Sicily, on 26th January 1974.The car was sold to 59-year-old Mr Giovanni Ruggeri and registered to 24, via Cristofaro Scobar, Palermo, which is not too far from the airport. A quick Google Maps session reveals that the area is now dominated by blocks of flats, which may or may not have been a redevelopment of what was there in 1974. It also reveals a chilling, poignant reminder of the past: according to Google Translate, the plaque on the fence reads “Here fell victims of mafia violence in the fulfillment of the Carabinieri Mario D'Aleo the Carabinieri corporal Giuseppe Bommarito the Carabinieri Pietro Morici in memory of their writing the city of Palermo placed on 13 June 1986”.Anyway, by 1980 Mr Ruggeri had had enough and sold it to someone whose name I can’t read, also in Palermo, and who then sold it four years later to its third Palermo-based owner.There’s evidence of diligent maintenance by the first and second owners, up to 1981, where it appears to stop. I guess by then it was a 7 year old car and probably serviced by a local garage.The trail goes quiet until 2004, when one Alfonso Croce appears as a new owner. Alfonso was a young man of 26 and lived in Trapani, on the west coast of Sicily. He kept the car until 2013, by which point it was in Bergamo on the mainland, several hundred kilometres north and about as far from Palermo as it’s possible to get while remaining in Italy. This meant it had spent the first 39 years of its life on the island of Sicily.In Bergamo, 25-year-old Sergio Biffi was the new owner, keeping it for 5 years before selling to 71-year-old Mario Morelli in Milan.Anecdotally, the car then made its way to Tuscany, from where it was purchased for export and driven to the UK. I bought it from its only UK owner.Due to the convenient presence of a paint sample, I also know that