Thanks guys! I had the little beastie out yesterday: It has become a very fun car to drive and enjoy. Looks good, handles well, makes a lovely and not overbearing sound, and is remarkably comfortable given how teensy it is (the length of a Mazda Miata but 9 inches narrower!).
The Lancia Fulvia Coupé is so rare to see on the road nowadays that every time I stop somewhere, a half a dozen passers by will stop, do a double take, and take photos of it with their phones. There can be a gathering of a dozen Porsche or Miata owners in the grocery store parking lot, and they all come racing over to gawk at my dinky little Italian classic... LOL! G > On Jul 7, 2023, at 9:57 AM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Looks good. The wheels still have a Lancia personality, and the removal of > the chrome strips is in keeping with competition versions of the Fulvia I’ve > seen. > > Paul > >> On Jul 7, 2023, at 11:50 AM, Ken Waller <kwal...@peoplepc.com> wrote: >> >> Nice, tasteful mods ! >> >> Ken Waller >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >> Sent: Jul 1, 2023 1:29 AM >> To: PDML <PDML@pdml.net>, PAW Picture-A-Week project <p...@micapeak.com>, >> SeePhoto Talk <seeph...@micapeak.com> >> Subject: PESO 2023 - Fulvia special - GDG >> >> While I was in the hospital, my classic Italian sports car—the 1967 >> Lancia Fulvia Coupé—was in the body shop having some rust >> repair of the rocker panels done. I'm out of the hospital now, and Signora >> Fulvia is also back at home. >> >> In the course of doing the rust repair, I changed its looks a little bit by >> painting the rocker panels a textured flat black, instead of the matched tan >> body color, and removed the original chrome trim strips that ran under the >> doors on both sides. >> >> The result came out just as I'd hoped: A slightly trimmer, sportier look and >> more in keeping with the early '70s Cromodora wheels that I've now got >> fitted than the late '60s Campagnolo rally wheels that I'd had on the car >> before. >> >> https://flic.kr/p/2oLFwr7 :: Fulvia, Refinish Rocker Panels >> >> While that was being done, I had also located the original badging for the >> rear ("LANCIA Fulvia" in fine chrome on the transom) and a pair of the >> 'bumper support' caps that cover the spots in the bodywork where the rear >> bumper supports used to come through… >> >> https://flic.kr/p/2oLD4Mh :: Fulvia, New Tail Badge >> >> …because everyone, or at least *almost* everyone, with a Lancia >> Fulvia Coupé removes the bumpers to make the car look more like the >> Lancia Fulvia rally cars that won so many races in the late 1960s-early >> 1970s. :) >> >> Photos made with iPhone 11 Pro using the Moment camera app, raw output, and >> rendered in Lightroom Classic. >> >> Oh yes: My partner, Felipe, picked the car up for me a few days before I >> returned home. He made a few snaps of it with his phone to show me what had >> been done. I put them together into a short video presentation, just for the >> fun of it: >> >> https://flic.kr/p/2oKzr9J >> >> Enjoy! >> >> G >> — >> No matter where you go, go there in a Lancia. >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
