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Pegaso. The Rarest Brands in the Top 100 Collections
The Pegaso brand produced just 86 cars, but they are significant due to their advanced technology and original designs. Created by Wifredo Pelayo Ricart, the project aimed to bring prestige to the Franco regime in Spain.
There might be few of them, but the Pegaso cars that are part of the world’s Top 100 Collections are nevertheless significant. Created to bring prestige to the Francisco Franco regime in Spain and promising interesting mechanics and original designs, the brand never reached the expected levels of success and produced just 86 cars.
<font size="3">The Pegaso Z-102 in its original configuration with steel bodywork presented at the Paris Motor Show in 1951</font>
It is well worth knowing, however. Created from the imagination and ambition of Wifredo Pelayo Ricart who returned to Barcelona from Italy after for eight years as Chief Engineer for Special Projects at the Alfa Romeo Corse, the project was gifted with advanced technology that had always been Ricart’s ambition. In fact, at Alfa Romeo he had created two single-seaters as brave as they were unlucky: the 162 Grand Prix with an incredible 135° V16 engine with 4 valves per cylinder and the 512, a very advanced single-seater powered by Alfa’s first mid-engine, a compact 1,500cc flat V12 with two roots type superchargers, neither of which made it to the track because they were built in 1940, the year Italy entered the Second World War.
