1978 Lancia Beta 1600 Coupe

[anonymous-user]

I didn't look at those. I didn't bid.

[anonymous-user]

wisely so I think

[citizensm1th]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF_oF-ZMhD0


the only difficulty isn't the roads but the small children and animals around the corner.

seventies Italian fishermen in very short shorts and fast cars

[Astacus]

Looks lovely from a few feet away but clearly a well used example with a not very careful blow over. Shame

[anonymous-user]

The rather straighter looking silver RHD car that was for sale on carandclassic has now sold, boo hoo hoo.

[healeyfan]

Bought a 2.0 Beta spyder at the height of the rust hysteria for peanuts. Not a hint of rust anywhere but nobody wanted it. Sold it for three times what I'd paid for it 40k miles later. Still rust free and did nothing to it apart from routine servicing. Fabulous car.

[anonymous-user]

I had a 1981 Beta coupe and a 1985 Gamma coupe both rust free, both lived outside, both nearing
20 years old when owned.

I have never owned a Ford or a Vauxhall but my Dad did, and his 1981 Cortina and 1985 Astra started bubbling away before he had finished unclipping his seatbelt following the initial journey home...

[anonymous-user]

js68 said:

I had a 1981 Beta coupe and a 1985 Gamma coupe both rust free, both lived outside, both nearing
20 years old when owned.

I have never owned a Ford or a Vauxhall but my Dad did, and his 1981 Cortina and 1985 Astra started bubbling away before he had finished unclipping his seatbelt following the initial journey home...

I am a liar - I did own a Ford, a Corsair 2000E which I had completely forgotten about. For some reason these did not seem to rust as badly as their stablemates. Ironically I bought it as a stop gap whilst my Mercedes 250CE was having major reconstructive surgery to it’s nether regions...

[Westblue]

Lancia Betas were beautiful cars.
I once went out with a boy who had a Montecarlo Spyder.
He was a spotty geek. I had to hide him from my friends.
But his car was gorgeous!

[CallThatMusic]

Westblue said:

Lancia Betas were beautiful cars.
I once went out with a boy who had a Montecarlo Spyder.
He was a spotty geek. I had to hide him from my friends.
But his car was gorgeous!

Nice one !

[healeyfan]

Hi there. Gosh that was a long time ago. I always wondered why you were always reluctant to get out of the car.

[anonymous-user]

Breadvan72 said:

The rather straighter looking silver RHD car that was for sale on carandclassic has now sold, boo hoo hoo.

Bad luck though oddly it's still live on eBay and Autotrader which is where I was astonished to first find it a few weeks ago...

Perhaps you should consider offering this stray home?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/lancia-HPE-2000/3532123...~4AAOSwASRfayVQ

[anonymous-user]

Hmmmm......, I could indeed do that, or I could dip my nadgers in chili sauce, and then thwack them with a cactus. Imma choose Option B.

[anonymous-user]

That is your prerogative.

After you have recovered there may be some items of interest below.

https://www.italiansportsandclassics.com/coming-so...

[anonymous-user]

Grazie, but I shall be good, and focus on my current heaps. By the New Year I should know whether I am keeping both of my 1970s sporty coupes, or selling one, and if so which one. My Appia will only be sold by my Executors (or maybe by my daughter's Executors circa 2104 or I hope later), and I already have a Landy, albeit only a late Series III. I should give up biking (I am too old and frit), sell my Morini and Guzzi, and do up my Lotus.

[citizensm1th]

Keep the bikes and sell the Norfolk heap

[anonymous-user]

Yeah but no but yeah but no but ....

[citizensm1th]

I can understand a Land rover (the shirehorse) in an otherwise Italian pedigree stable but not a Norfolk turkey (I'm kidding!)

[anonymous-user]

Lotuses are like the little girl who had a little curl.

[citizensm1th]

Breadvan72 said:

Lotuses are like the little girl who had a little curl.

in need of toilet paper?