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Auctions: Extremely rare 1913 Hispano-Suiza Type Alfonso XIII headed for Amelia Island

Posted from Autoblog 99 days ago
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Filed under: Classics, Auctions Cars get their names from a wide variety of sources: animals, places, the founders of the company that makes them... Some, of course, have completely meaningless names concocted by marketing departments, or bear alphanumeric codes that show where they stand in the company's line-up. But this car was named for a king. The young King Alfonso XIII of Spain was an early gentleman driver, motoring enthusiast and patron of Hispano-Suiza. He was such a fan, in fact, that he owned a good 30 of them, and drove them around Europe. The company, honored by his patronage, ... (original story)