A taste for adventure
WHAT APPEALS to me most about this issue of Octane is that there are some really heartwarming human stories to complement the cold mechanicals of the cars. After all, the sensible thing would have been just to do a photoshoot of Filippo Sole’s beautifully restored 1930 Lancia Dilambda in Italy (not a word to the beancounters, but originally that’s exactly what we planned – and did). Except that this unquenchable enthusiast then hatched a madcap plan to dash 3000 miles coast-to-coast across the USA in the car, accompanied by Octane’s indefatigable Italian correspondent Massimo Delbò and gifted photographer Evan Klein. And that took things to a whole different level. It introduced not only adventure, but also jeopardy and, well, people into the story of the car… and that in turn…