1978 Lancia Beta 1600 Coupe
Discussion
I have info about the couple that first owned this car! The warranty is in the name of this man's wife, and he appears in correspondence with Lancia UK dating from 1986 in the car's file. The names and residence details indicated in other obituary sources match, and the car came back from the IOM in 2017, so it appears that this hero of WW2 and his wife had the car from 1979, and that he kept it after his wife's death in 2003 until he died in 2016.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/content/1...
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/eric-garland-xq...
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/content/1...
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/eric-garland-xq...
Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 16th December 04:41
F/L Garland was evidently as tough as old boots. After the War he farmed in Kenya and was in the Colonial police during the Mau Mau episodes. He spent most of his peacetime career as an airline pilot. He married a stewardess, and it is she whose name appears on the car's warranty book.
The car's good condition must reflect the care that Mr and Mrs Garland gave it, and it may perhaps have been stored during Mr Garland's old age. A chap in the Lake District brought the car back from the IOM in 2016 or 2017, and I bought it from him in 2017.
The car's good condition must reflect the care that Mr and Mrs Garland gave it, and it may perhaps have been stored during Mr Garland's old age. A chap in the Lake District brought the car back from the IOM in 2016 or 2017, and I bought it from him in 2017.
Lovely looking car.
In 1986 I purchased a 1981 Lancia Beta 2000 HPE. I made about six trips to the dealer crawling underneath looking for rust before pulling the trigger. Of course there wasn't any ( As soon as I got it home we undercoated the whole thing just in case but that was the paranoia back then) .
I filled it up on the way home and some guy commented on the car at the petrol station. He said 'nice car but for that price I would have got a Triumph Stag, that thing will never hold its value.' ..err thanks but he was probably right. However as a 19 year old a 2 litre double overhead cam and cheap insurance stole the show.
It went back within a week due to the head gasket being shot, that was sorted Over the next two years the only things that went wrong was the temp gauge packing up, the headlining becoming unstuck and literally falling on me. I sold it on as got posted elsewhere but still have fond memories.
In 1986 I purchased a 1981 Lancia Beta 2000 HPE. I made about six trips to the dealer crawling underneath looking for rust before pulling the trigger. Of course there wasn't any ( As soon as I got it home we undercoated the whole thing just in case but that was the paranoia back then) .
I filled it up on the way home and some guy commented on the car at the petrol station. He said 'nice car but for that price I would have got a Triumph Stag, that thing will never hold its value.' ..err thanks but he was probably right. However as a 19 year old a 2 litre double overhead cam and cheap insurance stole the show.
It went back within a week due to the head gasket being shot, that was sorted Over the next two years the only things that went wrong was the temp gauge packing up, the headlining becoming unstuck and literally falling on me. I sold it on as got posted elsewhere but still have fond memories.
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