Project Gamma Coupe: fix-up mini-meet progress

[wuvvum]

As a former Gamma coupe owner myself I can only wish you the very best of luck.

 

You absolute fucking legend.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Maybe biff the battery connector off the negative post by twatting it with a shoe heel.  Take shoe off first unless good at Kung Fu.  Refitting is reverse of removal.

[Skizzer]

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.

You betcha, thanks a lot. Let's swap PMs tomorrow, I'm asleep now.

[RoadworkUK]

Has yours got the incredible thick Dralon upholstery with Lancia 'L's embroidered all over it?

 

Here's my writeup for the lovely brochure (one of my favourites) from, like, seven years ago. Has typos.

[Braddon81]

Bellissimo! One can only doft ones cap to your impeccable taste! What a cracker!

[Felly Magic]

Legend, that is all!

[Guest Breadvan72]

I have THROBBED for a series 2 Gammakoop since I first saw one, silver with blue seats, about eight years ago.  The throb does not diminish.  Skiz appears to have bought THE BEST GAMMAKOOP IN THE SHITEIVERSE.   Skiz is TEH MAN.

[JeeExEll]

Interesting link to a couple of period Motorsport magazine write-ups on the Gamma.

 

http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/december-1978/90/road-impressions-lancia-gamma-berlina-and-gran-turismo

[HMC]

Skizzer if it's at all possible this would be star exhibit at shitefest '17

[Shep Shepherd]

You've just won the game of Autoshite! 

 

I've only ever seen a Gamma in photos, but I love them regardless. Put me down for the Quattroporte; only one was ever made and I believe it resides somewhere in the UK.

[richardthestag]

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

 

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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.

 

wow, i r jelus

 

Get one of these for the battery

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Battery-Disconnect-Heavy-Duty-Isolator-Cut-Off-Switch-/171354988794?hash=item27e58da0fa:g:LW0AAOSw6EhUNQjD

 

[Joey spud]

That body shape is one stunning piece of design,a true original bit of thinking.

Where everything today is bubbles and curves this sticks out like a sore tit but in a good way.

 

I drove past it (or its sister) a few days back and just thought shit the guy who owns that must be seen as a bit of a hero in his neighbourhood.

 

Or is that just how we think on here?

[AMC Rebel]

 

Train incorrect method of transport to view Gamma

[eddyramrod]

Wow.

 

My hero

[Guest Breadvan72]

You've just won the game of Autoshite! 

 

I've only ever seen a Gamma in photos, but I love them regardless. Put me down for the Quattroporte; only one was ever made and I believe it resides somewhere in the UK.

 

 

Lots of Gammasloons, though. There is a white one for sale from a bloke on here.  Cheapo price, needs a bit of recommish work, apparently. A Gammasloon looks like a hatchback, but is a fastback 4 door. 

 

Library photo:-

 

[somewhatfoolish]

A Gammasloon looks like a hatchback, but is a fastback 4 door. 

 

Because Lancia.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Also, because 70s.  Lots of that about back then.  

[Six-cylinder]

Our Lancia is now a shed!

 

This black HPE is the car it was from, long gone I am afraid as bought as a parts car for the maroon HPE we were running at the time.

[Guest Breadvan72]

I was hoping that I might get to go and lick the Gammakoop today, but this plan has gone all to Harry Bollocks, and by the time that I am able to beard Sir Skizzer in his London lair some time next week, he will have spirited the car off to Land of Welsh.  So that's everything fucked, then.  

[Guest Breadvan72]

I managed to replan part of a plan. I have now seen, sat in, and actually DRUV the Gamma. Holy Mother of Fecque!!!!Skizzer has not merely won Autoshite; he has won the Internet.

 

 

The car is way beyond any superlative that I can attach to it. Such stylish, many seventies, so Coupe, much Italy, Wow.

[somewhatfoolish]

Interior shots NOW.

 

 

 

Pliz.

This, we must be exposed to the velour.

[Skizzer]

Don Breadman, mafia godfather.

 

[Skizzer]

Interior shots NOW.

 

This, we must be exposed to the velour.

Oops, sorry, forgot. It's still quite dark in there anyway - interior shots on Friday I promise.

 

Happily, it did start this afternoon so Don Breadivanni could drive it round the car park (while studiously avoiding full lock). This means I might even persuade it to take me home on Friday morning.

[Supernaut]

Don Breadman, mafia godfather.

 

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Nah, he's just waiting for the RAC.

[Guest Breadvan72]

The Skizzer, his Woollarding.

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Oh FFs, not that sideways nonsense again. Posted from phone. Upright on phone. Why the Hell does it do that? Windows Phone btw.

 

EDIT:  Now fixed by laptop, but WHY do photos that are taken with the phone held vertically, and which appear upright on the phone, often, but randomly, appear sideways when placed up here either from the phone or after being put onto a  PC first?

[Guest Breadvan72]

BONUS 1: I was driven off from the City to the other RAC in the coolest Metrocab in ever.

 

 

BONUS 2: The cabbie is retiring next month. He will probably sell the cab. I gave him my card. He promised to be in touch.

 

 

BONUS 3: The cab is a MANUAL Metrocab. Toyota engine and gearbox, 300,000 miles. Pristine inside,and out. Engine rebuilt not long ago.

 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

There are moody and menacing Mafia enforcer shots of Skizzer plus Gamma on his phone. Imagine a universally feared specialist hitman known as "Il Professore" or something like that.

[somewhatfoolish]

BONUS 3: The cab is a MANUAL Metrocab.

Top taxishite; whoever specified that must have been a complete masochist, trogging around that London without the benefit of slush-o-matic gears.

[AnthonyG]

WOW. Just fucking wow. A Gamma Coupe, Skizzer is becoming the Martin Buckley of Autoshite. I expect a Rover P5 Coupe and a Grosser Mercedes next.