Australian Classic Car had a story on the P76 Targa Florio in its August issue.
Evan Green entered a P76 in the 1974 London to Munich World Cup Rally. Apparantly it reached the lead position in the early stretches across the Sahara Rally.
It also won some sort of special award for the section of the rally that went across the part of the route formerly used by the famous Targa Florio road race. Hence, the name of the subsequent production car that was released to commemorate the P76s World Rally exploits.
The production version of the P76 Targa Florio was available in three colours - Omega Blue, Nutmet (a brown colour) and Aspen Green. A total of 600 Targa Florios were apparantly built. All the Targa Florios were V8 automatics. However, the Targa Florio was little more than a base model V8 Executive with the Targa Florio name on the bootlid, a nice set of alloy wheels, a limited slip differential and reclining bucket seats. The Omega Blue coloured cars also came with silver stripping and name tags. The stripping was not available on the other two cars ex factory, but many were so adorned in the after market.
See the website on P76s that I linked in the first post of this thread for a picture of a Aspen Green coloured P76.
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