Thinking about buying a Labo Jalpa

[Kotler]

Hi

Just wandered if anyone has owned one of these and has some experience of owning this little Lambo. I won't be looking to rack up loads of miles in it and am considering it for it's quirky value. Are they reliable, can I get parts? Do they rust etc?

Answers on a postcard please..

Cheers

[jdwcd]

Whats a Labo

[Kotler]

Thanks for pointing that out mate. Lambo of course, silly me. Be assured I'll keep an avid eye on your posts and will of course return this favour ten fold.

[andrew.]

you'd better change wandered to wondered, and porche to porsche in your profile
welcome to spitonheads, someone will be along with a useful answer eventually

[jdwcd]

Forget the ten fold. just a tenner will do.

Welcomb alsow

[Kotler]

Thanks chaps.. I'll go elsewhere for input. banter I can get down the pub - yawn. Unsubscribing now. I'll leave the site, sorry cite, sight(?) forthwith..

Enjoy your cars..

Bye..

[4hero]

There are a few people with Jalpa's on here, hold tight, they will help you out I'm sure!!

[evil_dr_fish]

I think there are a few toys lying on the floor around there!

I've just looked at his profile - He really has deleted everything and s*dd3d off! X-D

It says he's from America - so maybe he has fallen foul of the "lack of a sense of humour" we hear so much about






TBH... If he can't take simple teasing then he definitely couldn't take the persistent testing that driving a classic supercar gives you!

[burriana]

Still think it's a shame that a guy has come on here asking for genuine help and, unfortunately, the first responses he gets are anything but helpful.

[halpaed]

Shame it took me 57 mins to answer, could have given him some useful feedback, but patience is a must have for ownership of one of these....this from someone who is awaiting theirs back from garage before the annual bash and getting a little edgey now !!!

[jdwcd]

this from someone who is awaiting theirs back from garage before the annual bash and getting a little edgey now !!!
[/quote]

Same here!!

[jdwcd]

andrew. said:

you'd better change wandered to wondered, and porche to porsche in your profile
welcome to spitonheads, someone will be along with a useful answer eventually

Andrew. you nasty person, what harsh words????????????????????????????????

[jdwcd]

burriana said:

Still think it's a shame that a guy has come on here asking for genuine help and, unfortunately, the first responses he gets are anything but helpful.

But isnt that what you lot in the pork forum did to me when I spelt nurburgring incorrectly.

Did I st the bed! (ask the wife that one)

[andrew.]

jdwcd said:

andrew. said:

you'd better change wandered to wondered, and porche to porsche in your profile
welcome to spitonheads, someone will be along with a useful answer eventually

Andrew. you nasty person, what harsh words????????????????????????????????

i'm really so very sorry everyone
i promise not to utter the p****** word in here ever again

[burriana]

jdwcd said:

burriana said:

Still think it's a shame that a guy has come on here asking for genuine help and, unfortunately, the first responses he gets are anything but helpful.

But isnt that what you lot in the pork forum ...

Yeah, they can be nasty too, so I moved back to Italy

[burriana]

... via a very brief stop over in Blackpool granted.

[Steve_M]

How was Blackpool? Thinking of going myself.

Worth the visit? Or exactly what you expected it to be, a cheap thrill and never going again?

[dan101smith]

Chaps, any chance of an answer to the OP? He's a mate of mine, and I'd like to pass on any wisdom after applying the PH Banter Filter(TM).

Thyank Yooo.

[XXVIII]

As halpaed and many others will hopefully confirm, here's some info that's workable and hopefully non-judgementalist (I think that I've just made a word up... woo and indeed hoo...) and if the OP is still around to see it...


• I won't be looking to rack up loads of miles in it

Why on earth not? Lamborghinis were made to be driven!!

There was once a black Jalpa around in the UK that looked brilliant, sounded great and was frequently very 'firmly' driven. The last I heard before it went to Belgium in 2003, it was showing a little under 115,000 kilometers on the clock...


• and am considering it for it's quirky value.

There are few cars better, though they aren't as quirky as either the Urraco or the Silhouette and not quite as pretty either, in my opinion. I will get toughed up by Jalpa owners very soon but I have bruise ointments available so I don't care, so there...


• Are they reliable,

Yep - especially if you have a decent mechanic in tow or are pretty au fait with those metal thingies with open jaws or rachetty bits on the end and don't mind the odd bath in Swarfega™ at the end of the day...


• can I get parts?

hmmmmmm - usually all are available and often from surprising sources... or sometimes, just sometimes just er, ahem, no... a bit lots...


• Do they rust etc?

Do you live near a rough ocean or sea and/or live here in northern England where it always seems to rain and/or have only a lean-to 'garage' to keep the car in?

If so, then, almost certainly, they rust - this is because the Lamborghini Jalpa is a car made in Italy and until recently like all cars from Italy, one way or another, they all do that sir.

In the last 12 years, I've seen exactly 1 (one) slightly rusted Jalpa in the UK / Europe and at least 20+ (twenty plus) others some of which might have the look of being a bit 'starting to get slightly rustificatoxidatedionised' about them...



Some slightly biased 'advice':

BUY A JALPA!

Use it well, learn to love its quirks and foibles and you will never regret it or, don't buy one and live with that nagging voice in your head that keeps saying, "what if..."




Ed - tell me that Thy Red Terror will be @ the AD with you and C. again this year ... pleeeeeeez!!

Edited by XXVIII on Wednesday 3rd September 18:37

Edited by XXVIII on Wednesday 3rd September 18:38

[runway78]

Speak to Carlo at Top Gear cars in Scotland. Very knowledgeable and seems to have them for sale on and off.