Project Gamma Coupe: fix-up mini-meet progress

[Skizzer]

Made it to the car park round the corner from the office without overheating, dissolving, conking out or otherwise exploding.

 

 

 

 

The battery connectors are properly tightened up with spanners and I don't have any tools, so it'll just have to flatten it's battery. I'll order a booster pack from Amazon - I forgot this morning to bring my own from home.

 

I like it. It needs a clutch, the cooling fan is wired on a manual switch that you need to remember to switch on before you go anywhere, the driver's window doesn't move and I don't care because it's flippin gorgeous.

[Mr Bump]

A Lancia Tagora Coupe. Well lush.

[Timewaster]

I take it you bought the shitter of the two?

 

Impressive stuff.

[spartacus]

Yours is the one with the uprated suspension in order to carry your massive balls of steel...

Good effort, that looks great.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Will do proper insurance later - it's usually a bit of a performance as the car won't live at my house. Also it might catch fire or something this evening.

 

 

Tradition dictates that when you buy a car it lives at my house  So there.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Number plate says WELL SEX.

 

Or is that WILL SEX?  

[AMC Rebel]

Aren't these the ones you have to be careful not to wind the steering over to full lock on?

[Guest Breadvan72]

 overheating, dissolving, conking out or otherwise exploding.

 

 

You have just described me after seeing those photos.  PHNEERRRRMMPFF.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Aren't these the ones you have to be careful not to wind the steering over to full lock on?

 

 

Only when they are cold.  This one is HOT.

 

 

Engineering Meeting -

 

"Let's run the power steering off the camshaft".

 

"Great idea, you're not fired."

 

Good meeting!

[Guest Breadvan72]

 

It's a trap  

 

 

You are Admiral Ackbar AICMFP.

 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

I hope you bagged the one with the Christian fish

 

 

[somewhatfoolish]

You lovely bastard. Has the cambelt OMGSTEERINGPUMPDRIVE snapped yet?

[garethj]

That's flippin brilliant.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Interior shots NOW.

 

 

 

Pliz.

[Guest Breadvan72]

O, how hast thou with jealousy infected
The sweetness of affiance! 
 

Henry V (2.2) 

[dollywobbler]

Crikey! That's quite a buy.

[Skizzer]

Interior shots NOW.

 

Pliz.

It's a bit dark. Tomorrow, hopefully. The gear stick is worth the wait.

 

 

Aren't these the ones you have to be careful not to wind the steering over to full lock on?

That was just the early ones - this is a series 2 with an extra tensioner in the cambelt so it doesn't fall off. Plus it's only when cold, as BV said, and only turning left, so that's sort of alright really.

[Faker]

You have fucking balls of steel! Well played!!

[omegod]

You have fucking balls of steel! Well played!!

 

Nah they must be Titanium Testicles to take on a Gamma

[hairnet]

why has the grille shrunk

[AMC Rebel]

 

 

 

That was just the early ones - this is a series 2 with an extra tensioner in the cambelt so it doesn't fall off. Plus it's only when cold, as BV said, and only turning left, so that's sort of alright really.

Quality.  I must say I do admire the idea of cambelt driven power steering just because it's different.  Also Lancia were doing torque just as everyone else was chasing higher revs and more valves to get BHP with minimal torque - they invented the torquey Diesel in Petrol form!

[Skizzer]

Is the bonnet closed properly?

No it isn't - good spot. There's a block of wood there to stop it closing: we suspect there may be a good reason for that and have left it in place for now. The bonnet is front hinged anyway, so it's not going anywhere.

 

The fish can stay for now, I think.

[TripleRich]

Didn't know about the cam belt & power steering, brilliant idea.  Always like these and other 70s/80s Lancias.

 

MOT history says its only done 5k over the last 12 years.  Best of luck with it!

[For Fiats Sake]

Can you join the owners club and pretend you have a Y10 as well so I don't have to?

 

I am consumed with jealousy.

 

Bringing it to shitefest?

[Skizzer]

It's only had two proper owners since 1989, the last from 1996. He was well known in Gamma Consortium circles but sadly he died a while ago. The car's been off the road since 2012/13 but was decommission by the guy I bought it from, himself a serial Gammakoop nutter. (At one point he briefly owned that blue and silver one that Six Cylinder's mate is fixing up.)

 

Not sure about Shitefest yet. Maybe.

[anonymous user]

Did you really mean that he decommissioned it? They don't normally need any help.

[Asimo]

Enjoy.

I'm enjoying my (wine fuelled) memories of mine. 30 Years ago!

 

**And I was told back then that the Series 2 mods for the PAS problem had not fixed it.

 

So only start the engine with no steering load, ie hands off the wheel, and never steer up to the lock stops. Ever.

[Skizzer]

Did you really mean that he decommissioned it? They don't normally need any help.

Er, recommissioned. Sorry. Bloody iPhone autocorrect. Tell you what, if my best mate corrected my spelling as often as my phone does I'd have twatted him one long ago.

[RobT]

Ooh, can I have a look and give it a fondle as I'm not far away? Can also offer jump start assistance and tools to save you buying stuff needlessly.

[JeeExEll]

Cool Gamma. The start of a new adventure.

 

The potentially disasterous PAS problem can be overcome these days, I think it's done using an electric PAS pump instead. Handy that on a Laanshya. Still, worth checking out tho.

 

Watch out for excess stray gamma rays and don't get angry under any circumstances.