Lancia Beta Volumex
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The asking price is full, and you would need to give the car a careful going over at that money. It looks spiffy but might have gremlins untold. It has been off the road for a while and may have the usual car standing about issues that an MoT will not reveal.
If good, it will be an electrifying drive with the VX engine and the shorter wheelbase.
If good, it will be an electrifying drive with the VX engine and the shorter wheelbase.
edh said:
Breadvan72 said:
Another Volumex pops up on eBay. Common as muck, they are.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1985-LANCIA-COUPE-BETA-V...
That one looks very nice - always wanted a Volumex coupehttp://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1985-LANCIA-COUPE-BETA-V...
Breadvan72 said:
The asking price is full, and you would need to give the car a careful going over at that money. It looks spiffy but might have gremlins untold. It has been off the road for a while and may have the usual car standing about issues that an MoT will not reveal.
If good, it will be an electrifying drive with the VX engine and the shorter wheelbase.
A friend saw this car a year or so ago whilst buying some parts from the owner, he reckons it isn't restored all that well and not worth that kind of cash. I don't actually think that if it was mint the price is full, it's anybody's guess what a really good vx coupe could sell for the last one went for about 6 grand but that was before classic car price inflation set in, most vx advertised need quite significant work If good, it will be an electrifying drive with the VX engine and the shorter wheelbase.
Breadvan72 said:
Given that there were under 400 Volumexes sold in the UK (from memory, something like 180 ish HPEs and 150 ish Coupes), the survivor rate doesn't seem as bad as you might at first expect. I am sure that more than 400 1300 Coupes were sold in the UK, (although Lancia did not sell many RHD coupes in that engine size, the 1600s and 2000s being far more in demand), but there are only known to be four of them on the road, one of which I own. Number of projects and barn dwellers and scrapyard lurkers unknown. I pay no attention to that useless how many left site, as it is always wrong about everything.
I don't think howmanyleft is always wrong you just have to interpret the data correctly and know the wrinkles in the dvla data and model descriptions, as regard to volumexes there are two model descriptions for the same cars so to get numbers you need to look for coupe 2000 vx, hpe 2000vx, hpe volumex and coupe volumex quite why there are two different descriptors for the same car is anybody's guess. The figures you see will be cars either taxed or on sorn there will also be a small proportion of cars that were stashed away prior to the sorn requirement and cars in the hands of dealers.The figures suggest that there are approx 30 hpe and 45 to 50 coupe surviving, this makes sense as the hpe was just so damn useful most were driven completely into the ground.
This is how my vx looked just before I took it off the road despite being shiny the deeper I dug the worse it got...... Body is near enough fixed now just needs stripping to bare metal and minor imperfections correcting before respray (when I can afford it), engine still in bits and only the dash is still in the car.
DELTAHPE said:
This is how my vx looked just before I took it off the road despite being shiny the deeper I dug the worse it got...... Body is near enough fixed now just needs stripping to bare metal and minor imperfections correcting before respray (when I can afford it), engine still in bits and only the dash is still in the car.
Lancia's sales tag line was "The most Italian car". There was a lot of truth in that, right down to the dodgy (German) electrics!
A great piece of styling, and by the in house dudes, not one of the famous name design studios. Arguably, the Zagato penned Beta Spider was the least well favoured of all the Betas.
A great piece of styling, and by the in house dudes, not one of the famous name design studios. Arguably, the Zagato penned Beta Spider was the least well favoured of all the Betas.
Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 7th June 21:45
Breadvan72 said:
Lancia's sales tag line was "The most Italian car". There was a lot of truth in that, right down to the dodgy (German) electrics!
A great piece of styling, and by the in house dudes, not one of the famous name design studios. Arguably, the Zagato penned Beta Spider was the least well favoured of all the Betas.
It was styled by pininfarina then thrown together by zagato hence the dodgy build, coupes are a lot betterA great piece of styling, and by the in house dudes, not one of the famous name design studios. Arguably, the Zagato penned Beta Spider was the least well favoured of all the Betas.
Edited by Breadvan72 on Saturday 7th June 21:45
Breadvan72 said:
I had forgotten that. Not one of Pininfarina's best efforts, IMO. When Zagato made the design scheme bigger in the Bristol 412, it looked even worse! I am not sure which of the two was drawn first.
I always thought the spider was a bit plain outside but have grown to appreciate it a bit more in recent years. Even the interior is a pininfarina design despite the seats looking very zagato. I prefer the early seat design but have always disliked that mid brown colour they did them in, the later seats are very somber especially in black the light tan option is rarer and preferable in my opinion Yes, what were they thinking? The essence of a Lancia car had always been that it should be beautiful to look at as well as good to drive. Those gorgeous Dolce Vita machines of the 50s and 60s, the stunning Fulvia, the good looking Betas (mostly), and the Gammas,and then we got... the Trevi.
Breadvan72 said:
Yes, what were they thinking? The essence of a Lancia car had always been that it should be beautiful to look at as well as good to drive. Those gorgeous Dolce Vita machines of the 50s and 60s, the stunning Fulvia, the good looking Betas (mostly), and the Gammas,and then we got... the Trevi.
I suspect pininfarina were told there's a budget of zero make it into a conventional saloon for us!To be fair the later series two trevis that we didn't get are a lot better as many of the fussy details were deleted and the interior was improved, no more hidden door handles to baffle and scare passengers!
Thanks for nothing Breadvan...I have now landed up with this! 
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191202122347?ssPageName=...
According to the listing the seller is willing to post to UK!
It runs so looks like a good donor car at the very least!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191202122347?ssPageName=...
According to the listing the seller is willing to post to UK!
It runs so looks like a good donor car at the very least!
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