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Baron Greenback said:
Just caught up with your Lancia Fulvia Zagato 1600 restoration part 2!! Nooo that's a lot rusty bondo, glad its your car I am sure a lot of people will run for the hills!
I knew all about the rust when I bought the car. I was about to back out when I realised it was bad, despite having a so called bare metal respray just 1200miles and 16 years previously. I then discovered in the extensive history file it was the actual Fulvia Zagato I had seen outside my parents house way back in the seventies, so I couldn't resist and we ended up doing a deal at a much reduced price. I could have carried on running around in it as the rust isn't in an important structural area (the chassis around the spring hangers is fine) but it still niggled. I'm pressing ahead with the body restoration after we discovered the original orange paint during the strip down and I want to get it back to how I first saw it all those years ago in Birkenhead!
M4SER said:
Baron Greenback said:
Just caught up with your Lancia Fulvia Zagato 1600 restoration part 2!! Nooo that's a lot rusty bondo, glad its your car I am sure a lot of people will run for the hills!
I knew all about the rust when I bought the car. I was about to back out when I realised it was bad, despite having a so called bare metal respray just 1200miles and 16 years previously. I then discovered in the extensive history file it was the actual Fulvia Zagato I had seen outside my parents house way back in the seventies, so I couldn't resist and we ended up doing a deal at a much reduced price. I could have carried on running around in it as the rust isn't in an important structural area (the chassis around the spring hangers is fine) but it still niggled. I'm pressing ahead with the body restoration after we discovered the original orange paint during the strip down and I want to get it back to how I first saw it all those years ago in Birkenhead!
M4SER said:
I knew all about the rust when I bought the car. I was about to back out when I realised it was bad, despite having a so called bare metal respray just 1200miles and 16 years previously. I then discovered in the extensive history file it was the actual Fulvia Zagato I had seen outside my parents house way back in the seventies, so I couldn't resist and we ended up doing a deal at a much reduced price.
I could have carried on running around in it as the rust isn't in an important structural area (the chassis around the spring hangers is fine) but it still niggled. I'm pressing ahead with the body restoration after we discovered the original orange paint during the strip down and I want to get it back to how I first saw it all those years ago in Birkenhead!
That makes perfect sense - the actual car that helped create the petrolhead, and you'd a chance to get it and cherish it. I could have carried on running around in it as the rust isn't in an important structural area (the chassis around the spring hangers is fine) but it still niggled. I'm pressing ahead with the body restoration after we discovered the original orange paint during the strip down and I want to get it back to how I first saw it all those years ago in Birkenhead!
Besides, once you're getting the mig welder and spray gun out, it almost doesn't matter how much rust there is - it's all the same ballpark at the end.
M4SER said:
I knew all about the rust when I bought the car. I was about to back out when I realised it was bad, despite having a so called bare metal respray just 1200miles and 16 years previously. I then discovered in the extensive history file it was the actual Fulvia Zagato I had seen outside my parents house way back in the seventies, so I couldn't resist and we ended up doing a deal at a much reduced price.
I could have carried on running around in it as the rust isn't in an important structural area (the chassis around the spring hangers is fine) but it still niggled. I'm pressing ahead with the body restoration after we discovered the original orange paint during the strip down and I want to get it back to how I first saw it all those years ago in Birkenhead!
Fantastic to hear it’s going to get the attention it deserves. Some of those previous repairs make my teeth itch. Is the whole underside going to be stripped, as the floors look like they are covered in underseal and potentially hiding some horrors? I could have carried on running around in it as the rust isn't in an important structural area (the chassis around the spring hangers is fine) but it still niggled. I'm pressing ahead with the body restoration after we discovered the original orange paint during the strip down and I want to get it back to how I first saw it all those years ago in Birkenhead!
Looking forward to watching the restoration, keep up the good work!
It wasn't until I watched the Zagato video last night did I realise I was suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. I saw all the rot, and thought "that's not so bad", just because (like Harry said) if you're doing a restoration you will hit points like this what you don't want to see. And I've had that with my own project, worse really as some of mine is structural and not on places that the previous owner said it was, not ideal but at least you've the opportunity to give it a nice bit of weight reduction by getting rid of all the filler!
Interesting thought though is that the car is MOT exempt, and it worries me how many cars of this vintage are on the road to owners who don't give them the car they need because they're MOT exempt.
Interesting thought though is that the car is MOT exempt, and it worries me how many cars of this vintage are on the road to owners who don't give them the car they need because they're MOT exempt.
Thinking about the Fulvia video. How many owners would have continued to invest in getting it right? Cosmetically a car could look great, lots of shine, but a horror under the skin. You have to hope these cars fall into the right hands. Long may these cars be restored to be enjoyed for the future.
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DonkeyApple said:
The chap overseeing the Weber carbs looked like someone had just coiled one up in his front room!!
Glad I wasn't the only one thinking that!
Just in case Harry is reading this (fab channel by the way) in my experience every Fulvia had the steel parts of the subframe black from factory
I don’t think the orange paint on the crossmember will be factory body paint (though of course the car could be that colour from new, independent of that)
Is there a paint code sticker usually in the glovebox on a Fulvia coupe anyway, if memory serves?
I don’t think the orange paint on the crossmember will be factory body paint (though of course the car could be that colour from new, independent of that)
Is there a paint code sticker usually in the glovebox on a Fulvia coupe anyway, if memory serves?
Harry great channel and late last year you were responsible for me having an impromptu road trip in my 911 out of season down to Cote D'Azur via Route Napoleon. We hit the good bits mid afternoon and arrived at our overnight near Cannes at 8pm. Road was practically deserted for many stretches apart from the bit where you go under that big rock on a 90degree left and a delivery van nearly wiped me out - had I not been tiptoeing around it..!
Any chance of a new Defender V8 review (the 110 would be good!!).
Need more on the farm please (is the combine barn finished yet?!) and also Mr Tyrrell has been quiet.
Any chance of a new Defender V8 review (the 110 would be good!!).
Need more on the farm please (is the combine barn finished yet?!) and also Mr Tyrrell has been quiet.
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