Introduced in 1953, the Lancia D24 was powered by a 3284 cc V6 engine

V6 engine

A V6 engine is a V engine with six cylinders mounted on the crankcase in two banks of three cylinders, usually set at either a right angle or an acute angle to each other, with all six pistons driving a common crankshaft...

 developing 265 hp which gave it a top speed of 160 mi/h. The tubular space frame

Space frame

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 chassis was suspended independently by wishbones.

In 1955, the President of Lancia

Lancia

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 presented a D24 to President Juan Perón

Juan Perón

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 of Argentina

Argentina

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 who raced it nationally in the blue and yellow national livery.It was returned to Italy

Italy

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in the 1980s and restored by the late Count Vittorio Zanon. This is one of just two D24s in existence; the other being in the Lancia Museum.