Lancia Montecarlo...37 years and counting

[CallThatMusic]

[quote=5 In a Row]OP, do you have any more photos from the Scottish Italian car days?

I remember seeing your car at Falkland and the picture of the 2 Maseratis was familiar too.[/quote

Not sure to be honest. I’ll have a look.]

[CallThatMusic]

Breadvan72 said:

Some classic cars that were a bit iffy when new have been shown masses of love by enthusiasts and are now much better cars than they were when new. The paradigm case of this is the Triumph Stag. A good Stag with an original (not Rover) engine is now fab. The fans and specialists have in effect developed the car to what it should have been in the 70s.

Nobody has done this for the poor old Lancia Gamma - there are not enough of those to make this happen, so Gammas still have the problem of looking awesome but being Gammas.

What about the Montecarlo - a potentially fab car but with a famous brake problem, which Lancia fixed in a sort of low cost chuck away the servo way. Have fans and specialists done something better?

I recall a few cars were fitted with a Tarox breaking system which at the time was considered a good fix...

[andrewcliffe]

A number of cars have had a second servo fitted so that both front and rear brakes has servo assistance.

My car isn't on its Ronal replicas yet, but when the TVR sells tyres will be purchased, along with throttle bodies and ECU.

[jamies30]

5 In a Row said:

OP, do you have any more photos from the Scottish Italian car days?

I remember seeing your car at Falkland and the picture of the 2 Maseratis was familiar too.

I've got a few. I don't want to detract from the OP's car (which looks awesome on it's new / old wheels) so I put them over here

[CallThatMusic]

jamies30 said:

5 In a Row said:

OP, do you have any more photos from the Scottish Italian car days?

I remember seeing your car at Falkland and the picture of the 2 Maseratis was familiar too.

I've got a few. I don't want to detract from the OP's car (which looks awesome on it's new / old wheels) so I put them over here

Great Photos.....

[5 In a Row]

Thanks Jamie.

[CallThatMusic]

A few photos from the run this morning. Sun wasn’t shining but it was dry....

[anonymous-user]

I must be blunt: The OE wheels look eleventy katrillion times better than the wires did. The car looks fab.

[Bobberoo99]

It's such a great looking little car!!

[CallThatMusic]

Breadvan72 said:

I must be blunt: The OE wheels look eleventy katrillion times better than the wires did. The car looks fab.

Thanks. The wheels are growing on me now....

[CallThatMusic]

Bobberoo99 said:

It's such a great looking little car!!

Thanks. It’s fun to drive up to about 65mph. Beyond that it’s a bit scary...

[TwigtheWonderkid]

CallThatMusic said:

Breadvan72 said:

I must be blunt: The OE wheels look eleventy katrillion times better than the wires did. The car looks fab.

Thanks. The wheels are growing on me now....

Agree with BV72....what were you thinking!!!! Great looking car now the OE wheels are on.

[tobinen]

A very cool car OP. These were one of my childhood fave cars. Happy motoring

[CharlesdeGaulle]

It's a very cool car. As I said on another thread, I'm on the lookout for one in LHD.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

CallThatMusic said:

Thanks. It’s fun to drive up to about 65mph. Beyond that it’s a bit scary...

Why is that? It's supposed to be a sports car isn't it?

[CallThatMusic]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Why is that? It's supposed to be a sports car isn't it?

Brakes don’t inspire confidence ....

[anonymous-user]

Accelerate out of danger. Stopping is for wimps!

[Bobberoo99]

Breadvan72 said:

Accelerate out of danger. Stopping is for wimps!

[StescoG66]

CallThatMusic said:

Ok so here are two lovely Montecarlo’s being refurbed, recommissioned and got ready for the road.
And they are Red.
One day we should get the Blue car the Silver car and these two Red cars together.
Since they are all in Scotland this should be possible.
We could call it a Rally.
Hold a World Championship.
Car with most stickers wins.

Thread resurrection, but that very car got car of the show at Bridge of Allan yesterday. It is just sublime

[CallThatMusic]

StescoG66 said:

CallThatMusic said:

Ok so here are two lovely Montecarlo’s being refurbed, recommissioned and got ready for the road.
And they are Red.
One day we should get the Blue car the Silver car and these two Red cars together.
Since they are all in Scotland this should be possible.
We could call it a Rally.
Hold a World Championship.
Car with most stickers wins.

Thread resurrection, but that very car got car of the show at Bridge of Allan yesterday. It is just sublime

Yes I saw that this morning and sent a message to Rab.
It really is lovely.
So nice that the owner of the other red Montecarlo in Scotland doesn’t ever want them together side by side….ha !