Barn Bragging - House of Heaps

[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!

[Lotus 50]

Breadvan72 said:

Note: barn!

True dat. At least the welder will be able to keep out of the rain...

:-)

[anonymous-user]

Luxury!

[Lotus 50]

Those Lancias are lovely btw...

I'm in the process of getting another heap to replace the +2 I sold last year, with.... another +2 (JPS version). As a result I'm wishing I had a Barn to brag about - a prefab concrete garage is no substitute.

[anonymous-user]

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

[Lotus 50]

Tis always good to travel hopefully!

[Venisonpie]

What colour is the beta coupe? Never seen one like that.

[anonymous-user]

Bronze. I cannot recall the actual Lancia colour name.

More here -

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

[Venisonpie]

Breadvan72 said:

Bronze. I cannot recall the actual Lancia colour name.

More here -

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

Ah, thanks. It's bloody nice. Ran one as a student 30 years ago, very underrated and not the rot bucket it was reputed to be.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Venisonpie said:

Breadvan72 said:

Bronze. I cannot recall the actual Lancia colour name.

More here -

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

Ah, thanks. It's bloody nice. Ran one as a student 30 years ago, very underrated and not the rot bucket it was reputed to be.

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

[citizensm1th]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Venisonpie said:

Breadvan72 said:

Bronze. I cannot recall the actual Lancia colour name.

More here -

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

Ah, thanks. It's bloody nice. Ran one as a student 30 years ago, very underrated and not the rot bucket it was reputed to be.

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

I though they were made from recycled washing machines and ww2 Italian bycycle bits?

[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

[citizensm1th]

The appia has to be the best choice for limo duties in London, its shape would suit a taxi lamp.


Ohhhhh I don't go sarf of the river at this time of night guv.

[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.

[Turbobanana]

Breadvan72 said:

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.

Many years ago someone was foolish enough to ask me to be custodian of a great many piles of rust in some barns, all of which seemed to need moving periodically (usually when there was something less interesting, but more taxing to do in the office).

I got tired of constantly ordering batteries from the local factor, so on one order I acquired a spare of a common size and kept it fully charged permanently, taking it with me to whichever barn I was working in and using it as my slave battery for the piles of rust.

Failing that, the small Honda generator liberated from a mate's caravan would do the job in a few minutes.