Throughout the history of every automobile and motorcycle manufacturer, there has always been a special attraction to the world of racing whether it be competitions on circuits, hill climbs, Grand Prix events, sprints, or records of speed and endurance. In the motorcycle world, Ancillotti also wanted to make its mark in 1965. In the early 1960s, Ancillotti was a mechanical workshop specializing in tuning, located in the industrious Florentine district of San Frediano. The shop sign read: "Officina - Specialità Moto - G. Ancillotti - Firenze - via Santa Monaca 8 rosso." After its initial tuning projects on WLA motorcycles of the post-war Harley Davidsons the company modified rigid frames into elastic ones, an idea so ingenious that Harley-Davidson itself adopted it just a year after Ancillotti visited the Milwaukee factory. After years dedicated to successful racing go-kart modifications, a trend that had arrived from America, Ancillotti also began tuning Innocenti Lambrettas with great success. The high performance of the Ancillotti prepared Lambrettas soon convinced the team that they could attempt to break world speed and acceleration records in the scooter category. The first attempt took place at the Monza Circuit on the afternoon of December 2, 1965, and it was an instant success. The Lambretta brought to Monza was a former 175 c.c. model, upgraded to 200 c.c. and subjected to a rigorous tuning process. Deprived of its original bodywork and all unnecessary parts to reduce weight, it was then fitted with a fiberglass "speed fairing," with the lower section crafted by Gualtiero Ancillotti, who hand-shaped aluminum sheets. On that December day in 1965, brothers Alberto and Piero Ancillotti, along with Italo Musolino, the test mechanic for Scuderia Ancillotti, departed from Florence with the 200 c.c. Special Lambretta strapped to the roof rack of a Fiat 600. Their participation in the event was made possible thanks to the support of the Lambretta Club Italia, which managed to rent the Monza racetrack for half a day. That same day, another Lambretta was also competing ridden by an English girl named Marlene Parker, a member of Don Noyce racing team. The Fiorentini formed a strong friendship with the British team. It was Noyce himself who later introduced Ancillotti to its future official distributor in England for the Ancillotti Tuning Kits for Lambrettas a Florentine named Nannucci, who had moved to London before the war. At the Monza Circuit, attempting the world speed record with the Ancillotti Lambretta were Alberto and Musolino. For the occasion, Alberto’s father, Gualtiero, decided that son was still too young to compete on the full mile, preferring the more experienced Musolino a relative of the infamous Italian bandit Musolino, known as U’ re i L’Asprumonti, the King of Aspromonte (the subject of a 1950 film). That day, Musolino set a new world speed record for the standing kilometer, reaching 172.200 km/h, while the young Alberto limited himself to attempting the quarter-mile (402m) run. The "MONZA 65" kit is dedicated to this historic record set by Scuderia Ancillotti 60 years ago. The kit is entirely handcrafted with artisanal expertise in the Florentine region, produced in a limited edition, signed by Alberto Ancillotti, and numbered zero/29.