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21 - Prince Borghese's Itala

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Text: David Lillywhite / Photos: Rex Features

May 2010

Prince Borghese's Itala

Borghese’s 6-litre Itala was the first significant international rally car, winning the 1907 Peking-Paris. It still exists, despite being dropped into Genoa harbour in 1908, in the Turin Motor Museum. Its sister car also survives, and took part in the 2007 Peking-Paris re-enactment.

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