Barn Bragging - House of Heaps

[anonymous-user]

Just been offered freebs to the Bicester thing on 9 and 10 Jan. Which motah? I think Appia. Fiat will be at welder's anyway.

[anonymous-user]

Got tix for nowt from a friend!

Appia Saturday, Beta Sunday I think.

[anonymous-user]

Lotus 50 said:

Breadvan72 said:

Just been offered freebs to the Bicester thing on 9 and 10 Jan. Which motah? I think Appia. Fiat will be at welder's anyway.

Hmmm, a Landrover and 3 Italian cars... suspect you'll be lucky if they aren't all at the welders by then...

(Sorry cheap jibe coming from a serial Alfa/Fiat/Lotus owner... I'll get me coat)

Note: barn!

[anonymous-user]

Luxury!

[anonymous-user]

You cannot see the faux-JPS Lotus Eclat that is also in the barn. It may get fixed next year.

[anonymous-user]

Bronze. I cannot recall the actual Lancia colour name.

More here -

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[anonymous-user]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Ask BV about Russian steel and rusting Italian cars; he loves that story.

I have found a letter about that (maybe) in the car's file. I will post it in the car's thread later.

[anonymous-user]

See the Beta thread for an interesting (I think) update about the people who first owned it.

[anonymous-user]

Work in progress -

[anonymous-user]

The barn is in south Oxfordshire next to the house where I live on and off when not in London. A mechanic I know has just opened a car storage place in the area of London where my flat is, and he has offered me a heavily discounted monthly price, so one classic heap may be coming to Town, where my modern car lives on the street outside my flat. Which shonker gets first go in smokeyville?

Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 24th December 08:07

[anonymous-user]

You 'avin' a giraffe?

[anonymous-user]

Plan: take the Land Rover out for a trundle. It's not been out for weeks. OK, er... flat battery. Charge for a day. Move the Lancia Appia out of the way of the Land Rover. Er... flat battery. Charge for a day. Rinse and repeat.

Fiat 124 needs to go down the road to a welder. Er... flat battery.

I have two trickle chargers but one of them has vanished somewhere in the vasty barn.

Current daily driver: Lancia Beta. Jet washed daily. Modern car: sat under tree covered in grot.

[anonymous-user]

Cheers! Retro-schlonk is a fine phrase.

[anonymous-user]

Reorganisation allows a photo op for all four wheeled trash heaps except Lotus and modern heap.

Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 25th January 13:39

[anonymous-user]

[anonymous-user]

Some Dutch geezer, I reckon.

[anonymous-user]

What, to Sean Connery?

[anonymous-user]

New flooring. New barn denizen.

[anonymous-user]

I have never once in my life finished a single jigsaw puzzle except this one (or a single crossword puzzle). I mean, what the Hell are those things about?

[anonymous-user]

This one might be the last RHD one made. Here is link to a thread about it. The main rust evident is at one rear wheel arch, which has crumbled. Other bits do not appear to be too bad, the car having had a careful restoration in 1989 which has lasted quite well in most respects, and having it appears been mostly quite well looked after since then.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...