Barn Bragging - House of Heaps
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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.
Buy more trickle /smart chargers?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.
Breadvan72 said:
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?
Jigsaws = no. Crosswords, occasionally, if I'm bored. Never read fiction though, whereas my wife will do a novel a day on holiday. I think it's the difference between an enquiring mind and one happy to be fed stuff. Nowadays most of my reading is research into business change.Turbobanana said:
Jigsaws = no. Crosswords, occasionally, if I'm bored. Never read fiction though, whereas my wife will do a novel a day on holiday. I think it's the difference between an enquiring mind and one happy to be fed stuff. Nowadays most of my reading is research into business change.
It's the difference between an imagination and not an imagination.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&...
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Breadvan72 said:
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&...
Don't know how I missed that, or that HF clearly means Lancia...that script on the rear is not conducive to easy decipherability, is it? An interesting project.https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Not merely Lancia, but the last proper Lancia, according to some die-hard Lancisti*. The "Lancia 2000" badging is in groovy early 70s sci-fi script. See below an image of the badge culled from the internet. I am nowhere near the car at present so can't take a better photo of its rear end. Earlier versions of the car had the word "Flavia" (pronounced FlaVEEah) in a different script positioned in the middle of the boot lid.
I hope that this car is more of a nip and tuck than a project. The car shows some signs of having been a bit neglected over the last couple of years, but I hope that its long and mostly well documented history of being looked after before then means that it will not be too bad. My mechanic has given the car a good going over and says that it's basically OK. The underlying quality of pre-Fiat Lancianess, and being built by Pininfarina, both help, as does the hard work put in by the bloke who did the big resto thirty years back. He is on PH and has a Delta, I think.
The rear brake discs and pads, plus the steering bits that the car needs to go back on the road have now arrived and await fitting. A good thing about the car is that power steering makes it much easier than my other heaps to position in the barn where they all live.
* There may be some Lancisti who assert that there have been no proper Lancias since Vincenzo Lancia died, but I would not go quite that far.
I hope that this car is more of a nip and tuck than a project. The car shows some signs of having been a bit neglected over the last couple of years, but I hope that its long and mostly well documented history of being looked after before then means that it will not be too bad. My mechanic has given the car a good going over and says that it's basically OK. The underlying quality of pre-Fiat Lancianess, and being built by Pininfarina, both help, as does the hard work put in by the bloke who did the big resto thirty years back. He is on PH and has a Delta, I think.
The rear brake discs and pads, plus the steering bits that the car needs to go back on the road have now arrived and await fitting. A good thing about the car is that power steering makes it much easier than my other heaps to position in the barn where they all live.
* There may be some Lancisti who assert that there have been no proper Lancias since Vincenzo Lancia died, but I would not go quite that far.
Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 31st March 10:51
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