Hemmings Daily: Tjaarda-designed GT, Le Mans-raced spyder among trio of Serenissimas from Volpi collection

Long considered one of the last great secrets of Italian sports car culture, the trio of uncirculated Serenissima sports cars still in the collection of the man who founded and funded the short-lived Italian mid-engine automaker--Count Giovanni Volpi--will for the first time in decades see the sun again next month when Volpi offers them at auction. Volpi, the son of Venetian politician and financier Guiseppe Volpi, developed a taste for racing early on and, not long after inheriting his father's vast fortune in 1 [View in Browser | Subscribe]( [Hemmings Daily] Thursday, January 17, 2019 [Tjaarda-designed GT, Le Mans-raced spyder among trio of Serenissimas from Volpi collection]( [Tjaarda-designed GT, Le Mans-raced spyder among trio of Serenissimas from Volpi collection]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Long considered one of the last great secrets of Italian sports car culture, the trio of uncirculated Serenissima sports cars still in the collection of the man who founded and funded the short-lived Italian mid-engine automaker--Count Giovanni Volpi--will for the first time in decades see the sun again next month when Volpi offers them at auction. Volpi, the son of Venetian politician and financier Guiseppe Volpi, developed a taste for racing early on and, not long after inheriting his father's vast fortune in 1... 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