Sold in aid of The Amur Leopard Project
1989 Lancia Delta Integrale 8V Hatchback

• Restored in 2023 by Richard Hammond's 'The Smallest Cog' workshop
• To be featured on Richard Hammond's Workshop, coming to Discovery+ in 2023
• Restoration details and bills available
• Sold in aid of Combe Martin Wildlife & Dinosaur Park's Amur Leopards project

From the mid-1960s until the early 1990s, Lancia was a major force in international rallying, winning the World Rally Championship for Makes no fewer than 11 times between 1972 and 1992. During the same period, Lancia drivers won the European Rally Championship on 14 occasions and the World Drivers' Championship (only instigated in 1978) four times.
After experimenting with a system combining both a conventional (Volumex) supercharger and a turbocharger on their 'homologation special' Delta S4 rally car, Lancia opted for turbocharging alone for the less exotic Delta HF. Already a fine-handling car courtesy of its tuned suspension, the HF moved up a class with the introduction of a state-of-the-art four-wheel-drive transmission incorporating Ferguson viscous couplings and a Torsen differential.

Badged as the Delta HF 4WD on its introduction in 1986, the model retained the Volumex blower initially before switching to a straightforward turbo when transformed into the Integrale for 1987. The latter would prove a supremely capable rally car, winning the World Championship in both 1987 and 1988, yet in road trim remained a thoroughly practical family hatchback.

This Lancia Delta Integrale spent the first five years of its life in Germany before coming to the UK in 1995. 'The Smallest Cog' has taken on the restoration of this Integrale, which is being sold in aid of the Amur Leopard Project. Our vendor owns the Combe Martin Wildlife & Dinosaur Park, and the sale proceeds will contribute towards funding a new enclosure for the park's two Amur Leopards, Anik and Kazimir. Amur Leopards are critically endangered. The park is building a large enclosure similar to the species' natural environment with its own stream and cave in the heart of a thick valley of trees. It is hoped that this will encourage breeding, thus assisting with international projects aimed at the breed's preservation. The two leopards currently at the park are brothers, and when the enclosure is completed a suitable female will be moved in.

The Lancia's restoration and the park are featured in the forthcoming series of Richard Hammond's Workshop, coming to Discovery+ in 2023. The documentary series follows Richard, his workshop 'The Smallest Cog', and his dedicated team of mechanics. Bills and a detailed breakdown of the restoration works are available. A wonderful opportunity to acquire one of the rarest, most desirable, and increasingly collectible sporting road cars of its era, sold in aid of a most worthy cause.