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ISOTTA-FRASCHINI TYPE 8
Italy’s greatest luxury car, the Isotta-Fraschini Type 8, will be remembered not so much for its splendid construction but for the glamour surrounding the people who were lucky enough to own a model. The list of owners included Rudolph Valentino, William Randolph Hearst and Jack Dempsey; as well as the Aga Khan, Benito Mussolini and the Pope! It was not that Isotta lacked anything technically: the Type 8 was the first production car to be powered by that magnificent creation of the 1920s, the straight-eight engine, after the marque had… Read more
