Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

Time after time it has been said, don't internet surf when you have just come back from a curry and beer!

Will I never learn, who in their right mind would want a project Trevi!

It is being delivered Saturday afternoon so no collection thread as such.

Judging by the degree of rust and condensation, I'd say that should be a tourist attraction in its own right: the second Trevi Fountain.

[Mrs6C]

16 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Judging by the degree of rust and condensation, I'd say that should be a tourist attraction in its own right: the second Trevi Fountain.

Brilliant idea! That means lots of people will throw money at it!!!

[richardmorris]

8 minutes ago, Mrs6C said:

Brilliant idea! That means lots of people will throw money at it!!!

Wishful thinking. 

I don’t think I’ve ever seen one on the road. Dare we ask what’s wrong with it ( apart from terminal rust)?

[richardmorris]

I’d buy this for you as a present. But it doesn’t end for a week.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lancia-Trevi-Advertisement-1981/293348780462?hash=item444cf329ae:g:GFEAAOSwEEVbs1QV

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

Time after time it has been said, don't internet surf when you have just come back from a curry and beer!

Will I never learn, who in their right mind would want a project Trevi!

It is being delivered Saturday afternoon so no collection thread as such.

 

 

 

 

 

 

So as well as extracting a broken xantia from its resting place I have to manoeuvre an even deader lancia into the space vacated?

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

Will I never learn, who in their right mind would want a project Trevi!

This was my one, 8 years back

I'm pretty sure I have a pair of headlight units 

Whole weirdo dashboard

2x weird dash controls with lights

2x clocks

roof clock and panel

All sitting in my rented lockup

All my panels went to Mr Bickle and / Beta Boys consortium

[hairnet]

he likes bl tat and then does this *mindsplode

[flat4alfa]

...also brochures

handbooks

that trim strip for boot lid

Proper S3 Beta / Trevi  steering wheel and centre

Proper S3 Beta / Trevi  recessed door handles

Door mirror or two

[richardmorris]

Just now, flat4alfa said:

...also brochures

handbooks

that trim strip for boot lid

Proper S3 Beta / Trevi  steering wheel and centre

Proper S3 Beta / Trevi  recessed door handles

Door mirror or two

I reckon you’ve just found a buyer for all your Trevi bits.

[Six-cylinder]

12 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I’d buy this for you as a present. But it doesn’t end for a week.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lancia-Trevi-Advertisement-1981/293348780462?hash=item444cf329ae:g:GFEAAOSwEEVbs1QV

Thank you that is very kind but it does come with brochures in the history file.

[Mrs6C]

7 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

So as well as extracting a broken xantia from its resting place I have to manoeuvre an even deader lancia into the space vacated?

Not quite! This one is going straight into storage where it will remain dry for the winter.

[Mrs6C]

@flat4alfa That is a beautiful Trevi! Were those leather seats or the cream cloth? We had a lovely Beta HPE with cream cloth seats, in a fabric almost like a wool tweed.

[richardmorris]

Too good for the field, it must be decent then.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

12 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

....Whole weirdo dashboard....

Is that not known as the Swiss cheese / Emmental dashboard?

[hairnet]

14 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

So as well as extracting a broken xantia from its resting place I have to manoeuvre an even deader lancia into the space vacated?

yeah get on with it

[hairnet]

6 minutes ago, Mrs6C said:

Not quite! This one is going straight into pervage where it will remain licked for the winter.

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

34 minutes ago, Mrs6C said:

Brilliant idea! That means lots of people will throw money at it!!!

Either that, or you won't be able to see it because of loads of eeijts people blocking the view.

[flat4alfa]

2 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Is that not known as the Swiss cheese / Emmental dashboard?

Well take a good stare at the photo above and decide.  The competition is on

[flat4alfa]

7 minutes ago, Mrs6C said:

@flat4alfa That is a beautiful Trevi! Were those leather seats or the cream cloth? 

Leather yes, but a strip and after market recovering.  Were originally the same blue in yours.

I pulled the seats and put them in my blue Beta S3

Both cars are very much still on the show circuit

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 minute ago, flat4alfa said:

Well take a good stare at the photo above and decide.....

It is. It is Emmental. The only other ones that come close are Leerdammer or Maasdam

[Wingz123]

If you wanted it transporting (Xantia) I'll come and help and winch it out of there and onto the back of my Sprinter and away the same day. If where it was going in Welyn I could even get it down there same day.... 

 

[Jenson Velcro]

Wow, that interior is fantastic, it’s a shame that more cars don’t have such distinctive styling.

How much work will be needed to return the car t9 the road?

[Mrs6C]

26 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Leather yes, but a strip and after market recovering.  Were originally the same blue in yours.

I pulled the seats and put them in my blue Beta S3

Both cars are very much still on the show circuit

I'm pretty sure Six-cylinder and I looked at a Beta berlina in dark blue with cream leather seats several years ago, with a view to buying it. It was an automatic. We didn't buy it and I can't remember why. Probably not your one if it was you who put the seats from your Trevi!

[Mrs6C]

29 minutes ago, Wingz123 said:

If you wanted it transporting (Xantia) I'll come and help and winch it out of there and onto the back of my Sprinter and away the same day. If where it was going in Welyn I could even get it down there same day.... 

 

That's very kind of you, but I think @Six-cylinder has the collection sorted already for the Xantia. At some point we'll need the CX transporting to Willesden, though...

[Wingz123]

3 minutes ago, Mrs6C said:

That's very kind of you, but I think @Six-cylinder has the collection sorted already for the Xantia. At some point we'll need the CX transporting to Willesden, though...

No problem, just let me know when your ready?

[Zelandeth]

That looks fantastic...in that utterly strange way that only Lancia can pull off.

I really need more exposure to these cars.  Was gobsmacked by how lovely the Gamma was when I was a brief passenger a while back...one of the few cars which I could see filling the same sort of role as the Activa as an all round lovely place to be in the fleet.

...Aside from A: Their being nearly extinct making finding a good one nearly impossible and B: Being a Lancia...so having a tendency to need continual attention second only to Jags or Ferraris.

I can't help but love how Lancia seemed to just let the concept car interiors be carried over to production...

[flat4alfa]

31 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Being a Lancia...so having a tendency to need continual attention second only to Jags or Ferraris.

Not really

To be fair, the Betas aren’t trouble cars. I had three on the drive 10 years back and all were on the button.

They don’t like standing and the callipers always need a fiddle to free off if so, but mainly the hassles will be fuse box connections and the Solex carbs when tired

Any car that’s survived this long won’t be a rot box. This one looks great condition all things considered. Lancia at this age were injected with Tuffcote Dinol. A bit of wob in the door skins and a tickle stick on the jacking points and you’re off. Do tear out that boot carpet and check the rear strut turrets before doing a spend though 

[flat4alfa]

Another thing to remember is they were from the start: all-independent, discs all round, five speeds and a twin OHC. They barely have any body roll

All that from back when the Mk3 Cortina was current

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Mrs6C said:

.... At some point we'll need the CX transporting to Willesden, though...

God Almighty,  you managed to book it into Brodie?

[flat4alfa]

Oh and another thing while I’m all excited 

For 1977, more Lancia were sold in the UK than BMW

It was a great year for the Lancia UK concessionaires

 

 

 

....But 1980 was a Lancia Horribilius