Oh Noes! Not another thread about a shonky Lancia? NOW with fixulated steering N stuff.

[drum]

Like. Especially like the upholstery.

[Guest Breadvan72]

The paintwork really is in a ratty state, with loadsa rusty bits.   Spare new door skin in the boot.

 

Some deets below, plus Dugong lamenting the sheer unbelievable dreadfulness of it all.    Sorry, mate.  Intensive professional counselling may help to erase the awful memories. 

[HillmanImp]

Photos don't do the interior justice. Its amazing. 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

The interior is indeed totally "Hello Darling, I have bought you some Ann Summers knicks cuz I is a well classy suave dude innit".    Hmm, that bed in the spare room is a bit rubbish, eh? 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Body has loadsascabs and needs some hefty work and a full paint job, but does not seem to be so rotten as to be dead.  Wings seem OK.  Arches seem OK.   Front inner wings have been done.  One sub frame has been done, not sure of other one.  

 

Interior said to be a dealer fitted lash up done when the car was new.  Original would have been cloth or vinyl in God knows what colour.. If I keep the car and get fed up of the interior I could buy a load of Volumex cloth and do it in that, but the porno seats are growing on me.  Almost as comfy to slip into as a rented Lithuanian with bum antlers.

[Junkman]

That interior is irresistibly awful.

 

 

So is the entire car, actually.

 

Superba esplosione de vano joghurt.

[Jim Bergerac]

Well bought. Really think these look great and there is something appealing to the look of this one in particular with the steel wheels. It's a pretty car in a grim (in the nicest possible way) spec.

 

Should I be avoiding doing Rorschach tests or does the bit round the badge on the steering wheel (cf the last pic on P3) look a bit phallic to anybody else?

[Guest Breadvan72]

Yes, that is what Viz Comic would call a "pud".   

 

It is a sure sign that the car can only be driven by a cock.   I qualify.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Instruction Book.

 

Page 1.  Put car in skip.

The End.

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Loving all these Betas. its making me want to fetch my S1 1400 berlina out the barn!! Better not though due to instantaneous dissolution

[Guest Breadvan72]

Picz pliz

[Guest Breadvan72]

BUMFLAPS.

 

Driver's window winder is dodgy and window will not go up  all the way, and drops down a bit as you drive.  Vendor said do not wind down to bottom.  Rushing for London train just now, had brain fart, wound wrong way.  Window now disparu in rusty chasm of door.  Fook.  At home, though, not station, as went to station in Blondemobile with laughing blonde.  Will do ignorant pokeage to retrieve window when return from two days of partying (Inner Temple charidee piss up followed tomorrow by new Silks party mega piss up) sometime on Friday, preparatory to setting off for salubrious Autoshite upmarket social gathering .  

[anonymous user]

Remove metal spring (peferably not into your eye) and you are left with two handy window wedges

[eddyramrod]

Below:  Fuel stop at a Jet garage, because seventies.

 

In the 70s (1977-79 in fact) I worked in a Jet garage.    The pumps were striped up in several shades of brown and yellow in those days, not a hint of blue in sight.  Unless the blonde in the F reg Viva happened to come in... (I knew exactly who had what!)

[Junkman]

Like so?

 

[eddyramrod]

   Almost exactly!  So almost exactly in fact, that until I saw the Give Way sign, I thought you'd actually found a shot of the Lighthouse Filling Station in Formby.  Well done!

[Guest Breadvan72]

Tyre size a bit awkward.  My local mobile tyre dude in a van is on the case.   Not many that are not budget Wing Wangs in the size, but he is trying to track down some that are of at least medium kwalidee.  

 

Meanwhile, forward to Walesland on tyres older than the invention of the wheel.

[320touring]

Possible stoopid question alert..

 

Is the 1.3 in this similar to that found in the fiat x1/9?

 

I seem to remember them having crazy power for the capacity back in the day-all to do with bearing tax brackets

[Guest Breadvan72]

Lampredi twin cam.  Same block as X 1/9  [EDIT:  WRONG], different head and pistons added by Lancia, single twin choke Weber.  About 82 BHP.  Good torque.

[Guest Breadvan72]

The Lampredi twin cam came in 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 , 1.8 and 2.0 versions.  It was supercharged in 2.0 litre form, and turbocharged in  1.4 litre and 2.0 litre forms.

 

Mid 60s to mid 90s, ending up in the Delta Integrale and the four cylinder 16 V Fiat Coupe (the five cylinder 20 V one was different).  

[the judge]

This thread reminds me of how my brain works. If you only read what breadvanman says and nothing else, it tells the story of an intelligent man talking himself into buying a car he didn't want/need. Fantastic bombing sir, salute!!!!

 

All backs up what I say to my mrs, if men don't have a hobby, they have affairs. All the autoshite OH's don't realise they have it so good ha!

[Junkman]

The Lampredi twin cam came in 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 , 1.8 and 2.0 versions.  It was supercharged in 2.0 litre form, and turbocharged in  1.4 litre and 2.0 litre forms.

 

Mid 60s to mid 90s, ending up in the Delta Integrale and the four cylinder 16 V Fiat Coupe (the five cylinder 20 V one was different).  

 

Is the reverse logic, that a Delta Integrale engine would fit, where a 1.3 is?

I'm not suggesting anything, just asking.

[Guest Breadvan72]

It so happens that I already own a working Lancia two litre engine with fuel injection and a matching gearbox that are in a non roadworthy donor car.  I'm just saying....

 

The engine is stroked for extra displacement so a 2000 is taller than a 1300, but there is room.

 

Actually, I won't.  The whole point is to have a 1300 with low ratio box and skinny tyres.

 

OK, not that skinny.  155T14 limits me to Toyo or NankWank.  Go to 175/70T14 and I can haz PIRELLEEZE.

Oi Mistah, your tyres iz worth more than your car, Mistah.  

[Junkman]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JINYU-YH11-155-80R13-SPEED-T-NEW-TYRE-/181334835087

 

JINYU FTW!

[Guest Breadvan72]

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[320touring]

The Lampredi twin cam came in 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 , 1.8 and 2.0 versions. It was supercharged in 2.0 litre form, and turbocharged in 1.4 litre and 2.0 litre forms.

 

Mid 60s to mid 90s, ending up in the Delta Integrale and the four cylinder 16 V Fiat Coupe (the five cylinder 20 V one was different).

Good knowledge cheers!glad to see brain ain't too addled re remembering the important stuff:)

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Not sure the block is the same as an X1/9 mind you

[Guest Breadvan72]

Nor am I!

[Skizzer]

C&SC did a feature a couple of years back on all the Beta variants (featuring Betaboy 2.0's burgundy s1 saloon and TonyH's Spyder, both formerly/occasionally of this parish).

 

They reckoned after driving 1300, 1600 and 2000 (carb?) back-to-back that the best way to tell which engine you had was to look at the badge on the boot, as there was surprisingly little in it performance-wise.

[crapcarcollector]

Wasn't the X/19 motor from the 128?

 

SOHC as I recall later used in the Strada, then Uno?

 

Feck I don't know, slept since then...