When BBC TV Top Gear needed a range of Lancias for a filming around the centre of London, ahead of tonight's airing of a Lancia focused edition of the popular motoring programme the Lancia Motor Club's members provided the cars.

When the BBC TV Top Gear programme needed a line-up of Lancia’s finest past-to-present models for a filming session around the centre of London, ahead of tonight's airing of a Lancia focused edition of the popular motoring programme, the Lancia Motor Club was delighted to help and provided six fantastic cars at short notice.

Lancia Motor Club members brought along a Stratos, a Fulvia Zagato, a 2000HF, a Fulvia Coupe, a Flaminia Touring GT 3C and a Gamma Coupe, and they were filmed along a short loop of roads close to the Embankment. Fortuitously, the cars in action represented work by nearly all the main Italian coachbuilders, including Touring (the Flaminia), Bertone (Stratos), Pininfarina (2000HF and Gamma), and Zagato (Fulvia Zagato).

Club member David Bieda said: "Some onlookers at the Battersea roundabout did look as though their heads might unscrew after we did our tenth circuit, and the police outside the Palace of Westminster looked bemused."

The filming was part of work towards the current series of BBC TV Top Gear, with the Lancia episode set to be broadcast this evening (Sunday 29th November). Also present in the studio was one of the two examples of the latest Nuova Delta in the UK, imported by a Lancia Motor Club member.

The Lancia Motor Club was founded in 1949 to further the interests of Lancia owners in the UK. It is an influential member of the International Group of Lancia Clubs. With more than 1500 members in the UK and overseas, the LMC is a thriving and active club. It has many active local groups and model consortia, with members owning cars from the very first vintage and pre-war models, through famous fifties and sixties models such as the Aurelia, Appia, Flaminia, Flavia and Fulvia, to later cars such as the Beta, Delta (this year celebrating the 30th anniversary of its launch) and Thema. Members also own examples of the most recent Lancia models, currently not imported into the UK, including the current Ypsilon and Nuova Delta.