Lets see your Lancia's!

[westernlancia]

S3 Appia. 1090cc, 90 mph, fantastic handling, amazing build quality, pillarless doors. Vauxhall have just 'invented' the rearwards-opening back door...

[westernlancia]

O.K., the black one's a Hudson Terraplane, not a Lancia. But both that and the Appia S1 are original and totally unrestored cars, the Terraplane from 1937 and the Appia from 1954. Yes, unrestored...

[westernlancia]

My daughter, the day she passed her driving test. The Ypsilon is called Luigi. When I bought the car she was 16 1/2, and that day she came out of the house, walked round the car about 3 times and said 'what a lovely little car, Dad - just the car for the Girl About Town'. The day she passed the test I knew I had lost the car, and she absolutely adores it...

[westernlancia]

This is what an engine *should* look like. In Italian it's 'Otto trentadue'...

[westernlancia]

My own Appia Furgoncino the day after I bought it. 25 years outside in the Italian Alps, and almost no rust. And they say Lancias go rusty...

[westernlancia]

billbill said:

HarveyM said:

That's fighting talk!

but oh so true.... cant even remember what was the last "real" Lancia? Fulvia?

Last real Lancia was the Series 1 Appia (1954) - it was the last car designed before the Pesentis took the company over from the family. I have a Series 1 and have owned later Appias, and the difference in quality shows - a lot...

[westernlancia]

dwilkie said:

Don't forget ford escort rear lights on the Jag XJ220 EVERYONE platform shares, and it makes perfect sense as long as they tweak the platform approriately for their marque - if it means I pay less for the car and it's more reliable as a result, so much the better

(Says the proud owner of a badge engineered fiat punto )

It's not platform sharing that's the problem. No problem with sharing platforms if it's a good platform. The point about Lancia before the Pesentis and then Fiat took them over was that the bean counters had absolutely no say whatsoever in the company (that's why they went bust). It was a company run by engineers for engineers, and hang profit-making. Imagine owning a car that was built as well as it possibly could be, no ifs, no buts, with no thought of cost. Well, that was what Lancias were like pre-Pesenti and pre-Fiat. Post-Fiat they are still great cars, but they aren't built to insanely high standards.

[fay66]

Hi Lee,
Slip of the finger, series 1 2c was originally 1091cc, as is still pulling "Fay" around.

Brian

projetto2c said:

My 1967 Fulvia 2C, the unloved sister of the pretty coupe. This particular car would have originally been fitted with a 1016cc DOHC V4 engine, but now has the 1298cc version (with approx 90bhp). The last photo shows the previous owner competing with it in the 2007 Rallye Monte Carlo Historique, the 2C being where the Lancia rally legend all started, being the first official works car to be entered by the factory. Following a wiring melt, it's currently being prepped for restoration.











My previous Lancias, 1989 Y10 Fila and 1997 Y 1.4LS

Edited by projetto2c on Wednesday 7th July 21:30

[fay66]

Come on Alan,
Lets not get this one going again, if it carries a Lancia Badge it's a Lancia!anyway the last car Vincenzo designed was the aprilia, so should that be the break point, LET'S no go there, it's too devisive.

Brian

westernlancia said:

billbill said:

HarveyM said:

That's fighting talk!

but oh so true.... cant even remember what was the last "real" Lancia? Fulvia?

Last real Lancia was the Series 1 Appia (1954) - it was the last car designed before the Pesentis took the company over from the family. I have a Series 1 and have owned later Appias, and the difference in quality shows - a lot...

[fay66]

Here's a few of "Fay" my 1966 Fulvia 2c Berlina, still has the original 1091cc V4 and 99% evertything else is original, found in 1997 with 28k on the clock, put back on the road in 1999 and now shows 45k.
In 2004 did a 3500 miles trip to Portugal from the UK and back covering anything between 300 Miles and 450 miles in a day, climbing the Pyrenees on the way home.
In 2006 Driven to Turin for the Lancia 100 celebrations, another 2000 miles,on both trip the only problem was a puncture.
One of only a small handfull of RHD cars left in the UK and possibly the only one with the original engine.

Brian

[fay66]

Another at Lan Mandria Fiat Test Track Turin 2006.
Brian

[fay66]

Portugal 2004

brian

[fay66]

In the Pyrenees 2004
Brian

[Sliding Pillar]

Here are some more of the ones I used to own, Fulvia 1600 Sport
and Flavia Sport Zagato

[Sliding Pillar]

and a couple of Kappa Coupes

[Sliding Pillar]

[Sliding Pillar]

and some Delta Hf Turbos, one carb, one injection.

[Sliding Pillar]

[jaisharma]

a car I used to own - still being raced by the new owner

[jaisharma]

And "in action"
Credit to Tim Heath for the photo (I was busy at the time...)