The Golden Age Of Rally

A must-see exhibition that’s a passionate, loving tribute to the greatest rally cars of all time.

Matteo Licata
Roadster Life
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4 min readNov 19, 2022

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The Golden Age Of Rally Macaluso MAuto
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It all started with an X1/9, albeit a rather special one.

That’s because it was the fortuitous discovery and subsequent restoration of the X1/9 Group 4 prototype he raced with Clay Regazzoni in the 1974 Giro D’Italia that spurred Luigi “Gino” Macaluso (European Rally Champion in 1972 with Raffaele Pinto and the Fiat 124 Abarth, later a successful entrepreneur in the horology sector) to build over the years an outstanding collection including the most important rally cars of all time.

The Golden Age Of Rally Macaluso MAuto
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Following his death in 2010, his family took care of the collection and, in 2018, established in his memory the “Fondazione Gino Macaluso Per L’Auto Storica” to spread the culture of vintage racing and sports cars and pay tribute to those who gave their contribution to motorsport.

Turin’s Museo Nazionale Dell’Automobile, better known as the “MAuto,” is now hosting a temporary exhibition curated by the Fondazione Gino Macaluso, titled “The Golden Age Of Rally” that will run until May…

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Matteo Licata
Roadster Life

I’ve been obsessed with cars for as long as I remember and, after working in automobile design for a decade, now I’m a lecturer, a published author, a YouTuber