Let me say this quite plainly – Despite the revelations of Traumatic Bonding, I’m going to restore my Lancia Fulvia. It’s dawning on me, though, that it’s going to take more time than I first thought if I’m going to a lot of the work myself in order to reduce the cost. We’re planning on a new garage/workshop being built […]
I watched the new Petrolicious video this morning. It’s called “Traumatic Bonding” and it’s about a guy who bought a Lamborghini Urraco back in the 1980’s and subsequently spent a whole bunch of time and money fixing the car up. I could only nod my head as I watched it and trembled ever so faintly with fear for the future.
I did a little more work on the Lancia Fulvia today. It doesn’t feel like much was achieved, but it sure was time consuming! When I last left you, all this stuff was still in the car with the exception of the panic handle…. The main focus for today was to finish getting the central part of the dashboard out.
by turbin Follows on from Prejudice Part 1. Well the ruse worked for about 5 minutes. Yes maybe I had some people thinking about SAAB, and why not? It could just have easily been the case, as it has been for many. Recently I have questioned my prejudices much more robustly and taken more time to understand why I might
It’s almost the weekend! Hence, the Friday Fulvia.
A little diversion first, shall we? Last weekend I had the chance to drive a blue Series 2 Lancia Fulvia here in Hobart. The car is (tentatively) up for sale and the owner got in touch to see if I’d be interested in coming to have a look. He didn’t have to ask twice! It was wonderful to finally get
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While you’re all pondering the subject of Turbin’s recent Guild writing – Prejudice Part 1 – allow me to distract you momentarily with a rather epic and detailed Ebay ad for a Porsche 911 Turbo. I’m posting it now because it’d be a good idea to see while the auction’s still live. Mention the name ‘Magnus Walker’ at a Porsche
by turbin This is a personal story of prejudice and ignorance but with a happy ending. It also includes a little back-story on an entity dear to my heart. This back-story those in the know are quite familiar with, but I will tell it anyway. I came to appreciate the product of this entity back in 2000. They had been
I recently purchased some Lancia Fulvia documents on a CD and included was a whole swathe of Fulvia photography – the sort of stuff I used to scour the internet for in the Saab days. Press photos, advertisements, artistic interpretations. All sorts of stuff. So welcome to Fulvia Friday. I’ll kick things off with this interesting Fulvia from the Turin
I haven’t written anything about any new-ish cars in a while, but a few stories this week caught my eye so I thought I’d share them here. Koenigsegg #1 The first Koenigsegg One:1 production car was registered in Germany this week. From Koenigsegg’s Facebook page: The process highlighted an interesting technicality – the German registration system could only input power
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Better late than never! And as I’ll be away for November’s Classics in a few weeks time, consider this a bridge to December. Yes, December. Already. And there are only 65 days until Christmas, apparently. Yikes! This month at Classics saw the usual mix of regular and ‘new’ attendees. Alfa Romeo is my marque of interest this month, for reasons
