{"id":229280,"date":"2016-04-21T22:47:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T22:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=229280"},"modified":"2024-05-04T00:16:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T00:16:39","slug":"1980-lancia-beta-monte-carlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1980-lancia-beta-monte-carlo\/","title":{"rendered":"1980 Lancia Beta Montecarlo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>1980 Lancia Beta Montecarlo<\/h1>\n<p>The Lancia Montecarlo (Type 137) is a Pininfarina-designed mid-engined sports car. This is the second series car,\u00a0produced from 1980 to 1981, known simply as Lancia Montecarlos. In both cases Montecarlo was spelled as one word, unlike Monte Carlo in the Principality of Monaco.<\/p>\n<p>Both series were offered in Coup\u00e9 and Spider versions, the latter featuring a unique roll-back manually operated targa style convertible top. The Spider was sold in the United States as the Lancia Scorpion during 1976 and 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Total production numbers come to 7,798 units, with production spanning from 1974 until 1982 with an interruption in 1979. 3,558 first series and 817 second series targas were built; 2,080 first series and 1,123 second series coup\u00e9s. There were also 220 competition models built (Lancia 037).<\/p>\n<figure class='gallery-item'>\r\n            <div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\r\n                <a href='https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1980_Lancia_BetaMonteCarlo1.jpg' class='tipi-lightbox'>\r\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1980_Lancia_BetaMonteCarlo1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"1980 Lancia Beta Montecarlo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1980_Lancia_BetaMonteCarlo1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1980_Lancia_BetaMonteCarlo1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1980_Lancia_BetaMonteCarlo1-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1980_Lancia_BetaMonteCarlo1-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1980_Lancia_BetaMonteCarlo1-293x220.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n            <\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1980 Lancia Beta Montecarlo The Lancia Montecarlo (Type 137) is a Pininfarina-designed mid-engined sports car. This is the second series car,\u00a0produced from 1980 to 1981, known simply as Lancia Montecarlos. In both cases Montecarlo was spelled as one word, unlike Monte Carlo in the Principality of Monaco. Both series were offered in Coup\u00e9 and Spider versions, the latter featuring a unique roll-back manually operated targa style convertible top. The Spider was sold in the United States as the Lancia Scorpion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2188,1204,9348,17105],"tags":[2272,6834,1205,20363,6467,17418,13061,17106],"class_list":["post-229280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","category-lancia","category-guides","category-model-guides-production-cars","tag-1980s","tag-1980s-cars","tag-lancia","tag-lancia-beta-montecarlo","tag-lancia-model-in-depth","tag-lancia-model-guides-production-cars","tag-car-profiles","tag-model-guides-production-cars"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>1980 Lancia Beta Montecarlo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1980-lancia-beta-monte-carlo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"1980 Lancia Beta Montecarlo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"1980 Lancia Beta Montecarlo The Lancia Montecarlo (Type 137) is a Pininfarina-designed mid-engined sports car. 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