At Least It's Complete

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
07/17/2018 at 13:08 • Filed to: None

Is this car desirable for some reason that I cannot fathom?

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DISCUSSION (35)

Wacko > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2018 at 13:17

the Badge and the privilege of saying you own a Lancia.

Just don’t let anyone see it cause they won’t know what it is.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2018 at 13:19

I’m sure there’s a reason other than being pristine, Italian, and looking like the mating of a DeLorean and a Fiat X 1/9, but I don’t know enough about them to say.

LOREM IPSUM > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2018 at 13:27

You might end up learning Italian... It'll probably start with just the swear words, but eventually you're gonna need a part, and AutoZone/PepBoys/O'rly's blank stares won't be of much help.

Milky > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2018 at 13:37

Tiny mid- en gined Italian.

Lurcie(?) on Oppo has one, they can probably fill you in.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/17/2018 at 13:43

Pristine is not an adjective I would apply to this specimen. Condition = Good-to-Very-Good, possibly.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > LOREM IPSUM
07/17/2018 at 13:43

LOL.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Milky
07/17/2018 at 13:44

Or help me fill in a hole where this car would be buried...

MM54 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2018 at 13:47

Yes it is.

I want it.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2018 at 13:58

Relatively-pristine-for-something-Italian was too long.

Party-vi > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2018 at 14:02

H igher compression pistons and hot cams? N eato! I bet that’s fun to drive.

SmugAardvark > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2018 at 14:05

I’d buy it just for the way the trunk/engine cover opens.

Kinja'd!!!

My bird IS the word > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2018 at 14:07

RARE COLOR RARE COLOR RARE RARE RARE

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > MM54
07/17/2018 at 14:58

Then it’s yours.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/17/2018 at 14:59

But it’s not even relatively pristine. It’s rather worn and dirty and leaky-looking.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Party-vi
07/17/2018 at 14:59

Mid-engine, too. Nice trunk carpeting, but rather tattered overall.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2018 at 15:12

I confess to a laziness in looking only at the picture in your post. Which, particularly in respect to the black plastic, is not all that worn/dirty/etc.

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2018 at 15:13

“ Is this car desirable for some reason that I cannot fathom?”

Yes - for dem wheels. Those are Radwoo d stardom, right there.

Joe6pack > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2018 at 15:17

Always wanted one. Like the X1/9, but with the lampredi twin cam from the Fiat 124.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2018 at 15:39

Yes. 2 spoke wheels.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > SmugAardvark
07/17/2018 at 15:40

It might be fun to take for a drive on a day that it would start.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
07/17/2018 at 15:42

I will take you for your word on that.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Joe6pack
07/17/2018 at 15:42

So far outside my wheelhouse...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
07/17/2018 at 15:43

You are the second person today to mystify me by saying that.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2018 at 15:51

Haha they are different and therefore cool.

Really though, this car looks awesome. Yes, I am sure it will be unreliable, but for some of us (me) unreliability is fun.

Drive 500 miles in a Honda Civic? YAWN.

Drive 500 miles in an old Italian car ? Hero.

Not everyone’s cup of tea, for sure, but it can be damn satisfying for us masochists enthusiasts .

Jonee > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2018 at 16:05

It’s a great looking, unusual car. What more do you want? Unreliable if you don’t take care of it, but this one looks like it has been , so as lo ng as you keep after it, it should give someone with taste plenty of fun times.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
07/17/2018 at 16:26

It’s good. I’m sort of that way with VWs.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Jonee
07/17/2018 at 16:27

Then I am tasteless.

Jonee > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2018 at 16:31

I guess so, sadly. Start your rehabilitation by finding some old Pl a yboy magazines from the 60's.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Jonee
07/17/2018 at 16:38

Nope; not there.

Nothing > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2018 at 17:58

https://kinja.com/lanciere

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/after-10-000-years-im-free-1825782404

wkiernan > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2018 at 18:29

By the standards of 1970s Italian sports cars, the fact that it is not currently >50% iron oxide means “absolutely pristine, like-new.”

Inci dentally I have always wanted one of these cars lots and lots , from the first day I saw one down at Earl Brown’s VW dealership in Clearwater, Florida.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Nothing
07/17/2018 at 18:37

It’s funny how when you gauge the reactions to something you write, you discover how much you didn’t actually say.

My issue with the Lancia on BaT was really that I thought it was not remarkable in its condition. I’d love to wring it out though. And I’m not sure why people love to pick on Italian cars so much because it seems like British cars are much worse. #Lucaswiring

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > wkiernan
07/17/2018 at 18:41

It’s good. I was just trolling about an unusual, atypical car. Also, I didn’t like the condition especially. Stirring the pot. I guess it worked.

Nothing > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2018 at 20:15

I meant to tag Lanciere, my paste worked out incorrectly. They’re definitely interesting cars. Not something I personally would hunt down. I tend toward Alfa for my Italian headaches.

My MGB was a-ok electrically. I hated the Z-S carb on that thing, though!

Nauraushaun > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/18/2018 at 19:23

Because mid engined cars are fun. That’s the appeal for me. And having the roof off without compromising too much structural rigidity is also fun.

But I wouldn't buy it, I'd get an MR2. I have an MR2.