1981 Lancia Beta Spider 2000

[anonymous-user]

I quite like the early interiors, although they are certainly jolie laide.

The azure and mustard combo is so wrong that it's right. Very 1970s football strip.

[GC8]

They weren't too bad in the late eighties. The series two trims looked modern and smart with the earlier style seat being very much of the seventies, but still clean and smart and unworn(out) for the most part.

Now that theyre worn out they look terrible. Re-trimmed in a less contracting colour would be nice.

[mybrainhurts]

Breadvan72 said:

I quite like the early interiors, although they are certainly jolie laide.

The azure and mustard combo is so wrong that it's right. Very 1970s football strip.

What the hell are you smoking..:

Since you started this thread, I'm seeing them all over the place.

Here's one, a coupe near my daughter's house yesterday...

[anonymous-user]

Orangetastic! We have now reached the point where any Beta that has an MoT is likely to be a good one, all the stinkers having died the death, and maybe even given their lives to save the others. That Volumex Coupe above might be an exception!

[Dukecrev]

Breadvan72 said:

See a page or so above re my car's oil level indicator - inop due to claggy piping, I suspect.

Re oil pressure (see a page or so above), maybe my oil is too thin and not too thick, as the car starts OK when freezy cold (thick oil would tend to inhibit that), but the oil pressure reads low when the engine is well warmed (with oil tenperature reading lowish also, so it's not an obvious temperature/pressure inverse thing).

The bill from the garage does not identify the oil used. I could ask the bloke, I suppose, but why do the obvious when I can speculate ignorantly on the internet instead?

I suppose I am almost 7 years late to the party, and I am in New Hampshire in the USA, but we recently inherited my father-in-law’s 1981 Beta (aka Zagato in North America) and I am seeing the same exact issue with the oil pressure gauge. Did you ever figure out a solution? Our climate here in New Hampshire is even colder than the UK in winter but this car never was driven in winter, but our spring season is usually damp and cold. The car seems to run fine but the oil pressure gauge plunges to the borderline red low area anytime the engine goes under 2500rpms on the tach after the engine is warm and that worries me. Any advice is greatly appreciated!