An excellent job, Godfrey - the car & the photography! My, how cars have
changed since the 60's.
Alan C
On 01-Jul-23 07:29 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
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
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No matter where you go, go there in a Lancia.
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