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Themed exhibitions
Admiring legendary cars and discovering stories, personalities, events
Passion and emotions get mixed
In every edition of Auto e Moto d’Epoca, the organisers dedicate a themed exhibition space where visitors can admire legendary and special models, unravel the stories of unforgettable sporting events, and discover the great designers and coachbuilders whose vision made the world of motors great.
Classic Ferrari exhibition
An exceptional selection of Ferraris brought to life the 39th edition of Auto e Moto d’Epoca. The Classic Ferrari Exhibition brought together the gems of the Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena.
Supermoto 70
Fun, performing and sophisticated status symbols: in the Seventies, these big street bikes came to be and captured the collective imagination of the public and film buffs, laying down the groundwork for an entire market segment. Organised together with Veloce Classic London, the exhibition chronicled the birth and growth of this phenomenon with a particular focus on the apogee of Japanese motorbikes and the history of the most significant models produced in Italy and Europe at a time of great motorbike expansion.
“Bertone Universe”
In 2021, Auto e Moto d’Epoca hosted an exhibition entitled “Bertone Universe”, featuring 16 prototypes from the ASI Bertone Collection. This exhibit showcased fifty years of style by the renowned Turin coachbuilder, from 1967 to the second decade of the 2000s, with its unique models – with the exception of the iconic Lamborghini Miura – that mesmerised the world.
Legendary Prototypes - 30 Years of Porsche at Le Mans, 50 Years After the 1970 Victory
For enthusiasts of the German brand and beyond, Auto e Moto d’Epoca 2020 was an edition to remember. The occasion was a unique anniversary in history: in 1970, Porsche triumphed at Le Mans, securing the top 3 positions with two 917s and a 908. They also won the Gran Turismo cup, the energy efficiency index, and the performance index of the renowned French race.
Racing Ferraris: an exclusive exhibition
Sleek, fast, and beautiful, the “barchetta” sports cars emerged in the late 1940s. These powerful and lightweight racing spiders, featuring tiny windscreens, proved to be an effective formula, allowing them to dominate during the heroic years of the Mille Miglia and Targa Florio. The exceptional exhibition at the 2019 edition of Auto e Moto d’Epoca, entitled “RED FERRARIS DRESSED IN THEIR RACING BEST – Ferrari Barchettas: the cars that created the legend”, was dedicated precisely to the Prancing Horse’s barchettas. This exclusive selection featured eight “legendary” Ferrari models, ranging from the 166 Mille Miglia Touring, which belonged to Gianni Agnelli and won the prestigious Coppa d’Oro at the Concorso d’Eleganza di Villa d’Este, to the very latest Monza SP. The Monza SP is the progenitor of the new exclusive limited series ‘Icona,’ with an example notably purchased by footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović. Other highlights included the 340 MM Vignale, winner of the 1953 Mille Miglia, the 375 MM Pininfarina, one of only four 857 S ever built, the Ferrari 750 Monza, the 500 Mondial, and many others, right up to the Youngtimer 550 Barchetta.
Turin’s MAUTO at Auto e Moto d’Epoca
MAUTO is one of the most famous automotive museums in the world and it boasts a collection of the most rare and interesting vehicles, with over 200 originals from 80 different brands from all over the world. Some of the star models of the MAUTO brand collection were exhibited at Auto e Moto d’Epoca 2019: this selection included two exceptional vehicles. The first was a true pioneer of the car-racing era: the Itala 35/45 HP which won the incredible Peking-to-Paris race in 1907, covering 16,000 kilometres in only 60 days. The second was a Fiat 18/24 HP 1908 gifted to the Museum by Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia, the man whose name is indissolubly tied to the Museum itself. He is the person who came up with the initial idea of putting together the original museum collection and fought for it to be established and to be given a respectable location.
The great Italian rallying history
The victories of all seasons – from the late 20s in Sanremo to the Sardinia Rally – in an exhibition which interweaves history, cars and pilots, rivalry and state-of-the-art challenges. This was the Rally Italia Experience, the historic ACI exhibition at the Auto e Moto d’Epoca 2018 show. The exhibition compared two key events of our country’s rallying tradition – Sanremo and Sardinia – focusing on key vehicles of the competitions and many pilots (some who were there in person at the ACI stand), which have created the history of Italian Rallying. Among the vehicles present in Padua, there are timeless legends such as the 1928 Fiat 520, the 1972 HF 1600 Malboro, the Audi 4, and the Lancia Delta S4. Among the most recent vehicles, there is also the Ford Escort Cosworth (1993), the 206 Wrc Peugeot dating back to 2000 and the i20 Hyundai.
Shelby’s début at Auto e Moto d’Epoca
Exclusive to the 2018 edition was the participation of Shelby American, the creator of the Cobra and Daytona Cobra which, in the Granturismo competitions of the 60s, battled it out against the Ferrari 250 GTOs for the winning spots on the podium. The Cobra Shelby was originally a British closed coupé – the AC Ace – to which an absolutely disproportionate motor was applied in relation to its size (the Ford V8). Carroll Shelby, former winning pilot in the 1959 Le Mans race and founder of Shelby American, continued to work with Ford and other American houses to create high-performance models. Among these, there is the legendary Dodge Viper, which ignited American manufacturers’ passion for supercars.