Project Gamma Coupe: fix-up mini-meet progress

[Guest Breadvan72]

My new friend Darius G. Flag traced the fault to the ignition commutator. Bloody Italian electrics... oh hang on, it's a Bosch part.

 

Getting recovered to a garage. Might have another go at driving home tomorrow if they can source the part.

 

Interior shot at last:

 

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I hope that the hole in the seat was caused by some insouciant fag waving by a previous owner. 

[Guest Breadvan72]

I AM SKIZYMANDIAS, KING OF SHITE

 

LOOK UPON MY FLEET YE LOSERS, AND DESPAIR

  

 

RARELY, RARELY COMETH THOU

SPIRIT OF THE SHITE

[NorfolkNWeigh]

For the last week I've been snorkelling on coral reefs, lazing on deserted Pacific beaches and having my arse cleaned by gently pulsating warm water jets on a fancy bog in the poshest hotel suite I've ever been in. Not to mention reaping more goodwill from Mrs N than for 20 years or more.

But, I'm jealous of a Welshman in a broken down Italian heap in cold Regents Park.

 

Mrs N already thinks I need therapy, probably best not to mention I'd rather have spent our holiday fund on a Lancia ( I don't even like Italian cars, although I did once drive a Gamma saloon when it was 6 months old, it was a dealer special edition with a nasty pop up sunroof and a 2-tone paint job)

[Guest Breadvan72]

Welcome back, and thanks for sharing the arse cleanage details.   Good to know.  

 

 

PS:  Pacific, schmacific -  you too fancy now for Rhyl? 

[Royale80]

Lovely!

 

Friends father had a new one of these-he was Italian-had the local chip shop.

Used to drive it back and forth to  Italy every summer. Seem to remember it broke down in Italy one year and he left it there.

 

Steve

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Simple, the Audi was never class to begin to with.

 

 

 

It is, according to the tastes of the Grate British Pubic.

 

Look upon the four rings of Desire, Envy, Class and Germanness.

[Claphamrangie]

One more of us; one less of them....

[Guest Breadvan72]

FEWER, please!

 

Less jam?  Fewer spoons.

[Claphamrangie]

Check you with yer poncey barrister ways

 

Bet you know the difference between jam and marmalade

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Welcome back, and thanks for sharing the arse cleanage details. Good to know.

 

 

PS: Pacific, schmacific - you too fancy now for Rhyll?

 

I'm only halfway back, I'd rather have spent the evening in Rhyl than Venice Beach. Imagine Rhyl with legalised dope, readily available guns and gangsters that have crossed the border at the Rio Grand rather than the River Dee.

 

Back to Gammas, I think the one I drove must have been a Waterlloo Carraige Co. Special. Although it was in July 1985 so must have been one of the very last. The owner told me she'd only paid about £10k for it , not sure what the list would have been, it was at a wedding and she was pretty drunk so details could be sketchy.

 

This ad is for S1 Specials, but look at the last lines- Turbos! Did they make any? Are the any left?

From memory they did RHD Integrales too, when I'm home I'll be going through the back pages of some magazines

[Guest Breadvan72]

Venice Beach sounds just like Edmonton but without the bus jams on the A10.

 

Tell more of the wedding.  Did you do what respectable persons are supposed to do when encountering drunk female owners of swanky Italian motors at emotionally charged social events?    Your room or hers? 

[Isaac Hunt]

Had to look twice then, a "Lancia Sixty Nine Special"............I didn't realise Lancia Dealers were so accommodating. 

 

Looks like a megga rare car unless you are like the sellar with two

 

Oh, yeah,

Well, alright,

We're Gammin',Sing it,

I want to Gam it with you,

We're Gammin', we're Gammin', 

And I hope you like Gammin' too

Ain't no rules, ain't no vow

You can do it anyhow

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Check you with yer poncey barrister ways

 

Bet you know the difference between jam and marmalade

 

 

Bet he eats with his mouth closed and everything.

[Guest Breadvan72]

 - Darling, shall we use the formal lemon spoons, or the informal?  

 

 - Informal, darling, it's just some random twats from Autoshite coming to camp in the field and set fire to stuff.  

 

 - In that case, tell them all to fuck off, will you?

[3VOM]

 - Darling, shall we use the formal lemon spoons, or the informal?  

 

 - Informal, darling, it's just some random twats from Autoshite coming to camp in the field and set fire to stuff.  

 

 - In that case, tell them all to fuck off, will you?

That's terrible. Haven't you got staff to tell people to fuck off for you?

[Skizzer]

I'm looking forward to getting the car back if only to bring this thread back under some sort of control...

[Junkman]

he was Italian-had the local chip shop.

Was there ever another possible combination?

[anonymous user]

Was there ever another possible combination?

Yes, café, ice-cream parlour, barber's or ladies hairdresser.

[Junkman]

PS:  Pacific, schmacific -  you too fancy now for Rhyl? 

 

We decided to leave the A55 and drive through Rhyl on our way back from Hallucinatingcorporation's borked Ovlov Hematome,

reasoning what everyone else says is never true and it will be surprisingly pleasant and we might secure some decent dinner.

 

Well, that what everyone else says is never true was indeed confirmed, it is actually much, much worse, I'm not kidding you.

There was no dinner available anywhere either.

 

Highly recommended.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

We decided to leave the A55 and take the Rolls instead.

[Asimo]

Back to Gammas,......Turbos! Did they make any? Are the any left?

 

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There was a (Roger Bell?) test of the turbo coupe in CAR magazine, which I have lost. I do have George Bishop's tale of Gamma ownership.

Which is a great piece of writing but should not be read by any current Gamma owner.

[inconsistant]

Gr8 thread. Have this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

That's terrible. Haven't you got staff to tell people to fuck off for you?

 

What will we do for "People whose job it is to tell people to fuck off" when all the Hungarians have left?   Having said that, if we need to hire some grumpy cunts for cheap wages, experts at telling others to fuck off while standing around with hands in pockets, I suppose that we could always hire some British people.  PLAN!  Hail May!

[Junkman]

Nah, you'd need at least people who are able to speak English for that.

[Junkman]

Besides, what is going on with that borked Gamma now?

Any progress, or the usual?

[Guest Breadvan72]

Nah, you'd need at least people who are able to speak English for that.

 

 

An unarguably sound point.  Fook.

 

PS: car?  What Car?  

[eddyramrod]

I'm looking forward to getting the car back if only to bring this thread back under some sort of control...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

You'll be lucky.  Haven't you learned anything hanging around with this bunch of unshaven layabouts?  Threads drift here more than a Nissan 200SX.

[anonymous user]

Nah, you'd need at least people who are able to speak English for that.

Hire me, I can speak English reasonably well, after all, I'm Welsh.

[Guest Breadvan72]

I LOVE the THRED DRFT YO that goes on here.  People have hissy fits on other fora if you diverge one iota from the super dull discussion of plug gap settings or whatnot. 

[Guest Breadvan72]

I'm looking forward to getting the car back if only to bring this thread back under some sort of control...

 

 

Given what we know of Lancia steering racks, how likely is it that you can even control the car, let alone the thread?