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11/08/2013 at 12:53 • Filed to: Daily Turismo
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"DailyTurismo" (thedailyturismo)
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The Lancia Delta was a little Giugiaro designed crap box that shared most of its architecture with the Fiat Ritmo and Saab 600 and would have been a totally forgettable car if not for the HF Integrale version with 6 back-to-back World Rally Championship constructor's title from 1987-1992.
The standard Delta's naturally aspirated front drive setup was ditched for a turbocharged 4WD setup and hooning has never been the same. Audi's Quattro may have beaten the Integrale to the market by a few years, but we never got them on this side of the Atlantic, so while vintage Quattros are cool a Delta Integrale is a unicorn. Find this !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for sale in the United Kingdom for $24,000 (USD) on ebay.
The seller of this Integrale has listed it in he US ebay site, so we aren't just handing ice cold cans of Mountain Dew to a thirsty thumb-less man....well...actually the seller is because while he as listed the car on US ebay in US Dollars, he has also explicitly stated that importation/shipping/transport is the sole responsibility of the buyer. There are a few Delta Integrales driving around the states, but you'd be joining seriously small club to have one in the states.
The Integrale 16V is powered by a turbocharged DOHC 2.0 liter inline-4 that puts out 200 horsepower in street trim and zips the little hatch from 0-60mph in 5.5 seconds. It was a righteous performer in its day and would leave E30 M3s in its rear view mirror all day long.
The 9000 rpm tach and 150 mph speedometer are both a tad optimistic, but you've got to love the minimalistic approach to the gauges - almost looks like something you'd see in a Cessna. The seats in this one will need some work, but the seller claims this car had an entire restoration back in the year 2000 including a "rot free body shell." Still...for $24k + cu$tom$ dutie$+ $hipping + $urprises...how sweet would it be to drive this every day.
See a better 16V grey-market rally car for the street? email us here:
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Photo credits: ebay.com
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Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
> DailyTurismo
11/08/2013 at 12:59 |
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Try to get it by customs?
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DailyTurismo
> Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/08/2013 at 13:01 |
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Just bringing some spare parts to Endor. Nothing to see here.
duurtlang
> Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/08/2013 at 13:04 |
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I don't really get it either. Wait 14 months and it would be perfectly legal, right? But now, not so much. Unless you can prove it was built in 1989 and you ship it 2 months from now.
Goshen, formerly Darkcode
> DailyTurismo
11/08/2013 at 13:08 |
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>implies that the Delta was a crapbox
Oh excuse me sir, but fuck no. The Delta was the compact car by excellence back in the day. Think 1980s Audi A3/S3, only with more cred because rally car.
lucky's pepper
> DailyTurismo
11/08/2013 at 13:32 |
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If it's wrong to be nostalgic for crappy 80's interiors, I don't want to be right.
chato
> DailyTurismo
11/08/2013 at 14:01 |
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so much want.
911e46z06
> DailyTurismo
11/08/2013 at 14:15 |
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Not joking. I opened the listing, looked at the pictures, looked at the price, and I was ecstatic, because I knew I was finally going to own in Integrale.
Theeeeeen, it turns out it's in England and can't be legally imported for a couple more years, and now I feel like someone stole my candy.
Bird
> duurtlang
11/08/2013 at 14:24 |
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It actually goes by the build month. If it was produced January 1989, you could import it to the US in January 2014. December 1989, and you'll have to wait until December...
shawn meagher
> lucky's pepper
11/13/2013 at 14:48 |
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Something awesome about such a simple cluster. And that tachometer... I need that in my life.
dumbgreek
> 911e46z06
11/13/2013 at 15:46 |
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Here you go, this one is in Canada and it is older than 25 years. I only ask one thing, that I get a ride in it when/if you buy it . . . please?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lancia-Del…
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911e46z06
> dumbgreek
11/13/2013 at 23:39 |
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Wow, that's pretty cheap. Unfortunately not an Integrale, and not stock enough for my taste.