Story by Mitch McCullough
It was midnight in the Apennine Mountains, dark, and quiet except for the cicadas and a light breeze rustling through the pines, when two tiny cars, one Italian, one French, came around a curve and raced down the mountainside, slipping through the wilderness as they headed out of Tuscany toward the lights of Parma sparkling far …
Alas, all of my Italians are too young to take part. Even my oldest is 16 years a baby to the requirements.
Beautiful article. Great way to travel. I was recently in Greece and came upon a passing rally/tour, the Peloponnese. I was instantly jealous. I only caught these two cars sadly, and they ar both Fulvias although I saw several other vintage makes.
The MONTE CARLO HISTORIQUE is another good rally, perhaps more challenging that this one.
we ran it 2 1/2 times; cooper/mg and c3 cunningham. no crew, couple of stopwatches. back when they had a trophy for the best car from each country, we were beaten for the u.s.a. trophy in '94 by a couple germans in a 300sl who entered from their scottsdale address. i don't think they had us passports...oh well...it was great fun. i also navigated for sandy orttewell in his '24 alfa 1500 sport in '05. it had about half as many entrants then
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