Project Gamma Coupe: fix-up mini-meet progress

[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.

[trigger]

Nice purchase Sir.

[Felly Magic]

I think there has been a lot of Vic Reeves style thigh rubbing going on

[Guest Breadvan72]

The cabbie who may be selling the cab has been a cabbie for 41 years, and he has always had manual cabs. The Metrocab he has owned since it was new. 

[drum]

Shiters from the suited city gents fraternity playing with a gamma coop! That's a splendiferous eye turner old BV is sporting. I wouldn't be able to merely walk, but would have to ponce if wearing such a garb. I hope you ponce too, BV.

[Sir Snipes]

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:-

 

 

 

I'm not a fan of Italian motors but I love this!

[Guest Breadvan72]

Shiters from the suited city gents fraternity playing with a gamma coop! That's a splendiferous eye turner old BV is sporting. I wouldn't be able to merely walk, but would have to ponce if wearing such a garb. I hope you ponce too, BV.

 

 

Of course I ponce!  I AM a ponce.  Ponces ponce. So, I ponce.  Like a Ponce.

[Guest Breadvan72]

 

I'm not a fan of Italian motors but I love this!

 

 

There is a white one in a shed owned by a member of the Forum who lives, IIRC, near Leicester.   It has been off the road for a while.   Capsuleboy, that's the chappie.  He might sell the car if you want it.  Blue interior.  

 

Most of what people say about 70s Lancias is Clarkson pub blah.  They were in many ways very advanced and well equipped cars, but they suffered from quirks.  The Gamma in particular had the steering and cambelt issue, but that can be resolved.  The so called Italian electrics of doom are mostly German electrics of doom. It was the Japanese who invented reliable car electrics.   Old Lancias rust much as other 70s cars rust.   Maybe a bit more, but not as much as the pubbists maintain.  Rust can be fixed.  I have thus far had four 70s/80s Lancias.  Two rotten, two not rotten.  

[Guest Breadvan72]

The Metrocab buggers off after chucking me out, up West -

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Back to the Gamma:  The interior is lush.  Pale velour cloth with Ls on it.  You sit in a low and very Italian driving position, looking over the impressive dashboard which has MANYS dials, lights, buttons, switches and WTF is thats.  The gearstick is a thing of design and manufacturing beauty.   So too are the interior door handles.  The build quality feels good - the car doesn't feel at all flimsy. The car has an understated elegance to match that of its owner.  It manages to be simultaneously angular and mildly curvy (I am talking of the car now, not of Skizzer).  It has presence, but it isn't aggressive.  It is like a really good bespoke suit, hand made by a slightly mad but very talented Italian tailor.  It is in all respects simply fabulous.  

[Guest Breadvan72]

https://auction.catawiki.com/kavels/11034493-lancia-gamma-2000-sedan-1978?utm_campaign=Classic+car+%2F+Automobilia+auction-en&utm_content=auction_lot_share&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Facebook

 

[andy18s]

Back to the Gamma: The interior is lush. Pale velour cloth with Ls on it. You sit in a low and very Italian driving position, looking over the impressive dashboard which has MANYS dials, lights, buttons, switches and WTF is thats. The gearstick is a thing of design and manufacturing beauty. So too are the interior door handles. The build quality feels good - the car doesn't feel at all flimsy. The car has an understated elegance to match that of its owner. It manages to be simultaneously angular and mildly curvy (I am taking of the car now, not Skizzer). It has presence, but it isn't aggressive. It is like a really good suit, hand made by a slightly mad but very talented Italian tailor. It is in all respects simply fabulous.

 

I'm guessing you quite like this Gamma then?...

[Sloth in a bowl]

The cabbie who may be selling the cab has been a cabbie for 41 years, and he has always had manual cabs. The Metrocab he has owned since it was new. 

 

 

A man with palms of steel

[Guest Breadvan72]

He was an inordinately cool old dude .  A proper, old school, London cabbie.  He did the Knowledge in a year and a day (it takes most people two to three years, but he said he did it as his nine to five job, while his wife paid the bills).   He got his badge just in time for the long, hot, summer of 1976.  

[somewhatfoolish]

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.

He's certainly acquiring slightly baggy Lahn-see-ars, next should be a Flavia saloon with knacked kingpins.

[Skizzer]

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.

 

And here's Don Breadivanni in his Metrocab. He forgot all about the Gamma and got completely over-excited at the Metrocab. It did look pretty cool though, and the driver found us very amusing in a slightly mad way.

 

 

Second leg of the collection tomorrow - across London and onwards to Wales. Fingers crossed. I promise interior pics if I can persuade it out of the dark car park.

[Dermist]

I am a self confessed lancia licker and spend hours reading this web site dedicated to car design and philosophy.

It also helps that the main contributes are lancia / Citroen mad.

This is a great series of articles all about the gamma and the situation it found it self in during the 1970s.

 

https://driventowrite.com/2015/08/31/lancia-gamma-history-part-one/

[Inspector Morose]

Not jealous. Not in the slightest*.

[Felly Magic]

With this car, Skizzer is officially a member of the Taffia, they give you an offer you cannot understand

[Guest Breadvan72]

If we time things correctly today, I could be broken down on the eastbound hard shoulder of the M4 whilst you are broken down on the westbound hard shoulder of the M4.   Shall we say about five miles east of Membury Services?  

 

When I blew up the engine on my HPE, I exchanged waves across the Christmassy M25 with a dude in a broken down 1980s Alfa who was on the other side of the road.  He got rescued first. 

[Louise2cv]

Are man-bags the new white loafer?

[Guest Breadvan72]

If I had a man bag it would only result in me losing everything at once.  At present I can and will lose wallet, keys, phone, specs, passport, etc, in random pubs, taxis, knocking shops, etc., but ONE AT A TIME. 

[Guest Breadvan72]

I do have a wanker briefcase, however, and that occasionally appears in shot on here. That is used for losing Government legal papers (preferably when doing a case for the MoD that is going to be heard in a closed Courtroom*), laptops rammed with Government and private client privileged material, and so on.   Also sunglasses and car keys, put in there to avoid losing from suit pockets. 

 

 

 

 

 * Not the one about Land Rovers.  OK, the one about Land Rovers.  But not that one.  Another one.  Not really about Land Rovers.

[Louise2cv]

I was only joshing. I think you both look very smart.
 

My kids have library books where there is a little duck hidden on each page and the bags reminded me of that a little bit.

[Guest Breadvan72]

I used to love Duck in a Truck when my daughter was tiny.   I miss Fifi and the Flowertots and Peppa Pig. Nowadays it is Star Wars Rebels, Teen Titans Go, and Regular Show.  Also Adventure Time.  All of these are fab.

 

She is reading Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone, and has a very cool D & D character who is a fifth level Chaotic Good Half-Elven Ranger with limited spell casting abilities, a magic bow, and the +5 Boots of Butt Kicking.  Her party somehow killed a Beholder last month, although mainly by cheating with an over boosted single use magical artifact that they had looted from a defeated Hobgoblin Death Squad.   Her online MMORPG character in Star Wars - Old Republic, is a Level 70 Super Light Side Jedi Knight who is currently possessed by the spirit of the late Sith Emperor (whom she killed), and is unwillingly teamed up with his rocky tough widow, having crash landed on a ecologically hostile uninhabited planet miles from anywhere.  Sheesh,  I should get a Loyalty Card from Forbidden Planet.  

[Guest Breadvan72]

Sorry for hijack Skiz, back to the Italian smoooooothmobile.  Is it broken yet?

[anonymous user]

It's a Lancia Gamma, of course it's broken, they always are, but not always broken enough to stop you using them; however, I do think that they are more for looking at than using as actual transport

[Skizzer]

Of course it's broken down. In Regent's Park. Green Flag on way. Not much phone battery

[Skizzer]

Alternator i think.

[Junkman]

Hihihihi...