Very Rare car, even rarer to find one not rusted into dust! This one brings back Memories for me. When the Fiat Lancia Dealer I worked for in 81 went out of business they owed me 2 weeks pay, and 1 week of vacation pay. The owner (that I always got along with very well) was very upset that he could not afford to pay most of the hourly employees for the time they had already worked. He offered me a 79 Lancia Beta with only 35,000 miles if I signed off on the 4 weeks of pay he owed me. The car was waiting to be converted into a Rally car for the owners Rally team. I did the math and he owed me about $650, and the car was worth at least $2000 at the time. I took the car, my father thought I was an Idiot (normal, he thought I was an Idiot when it came to cars until the day he died) I had a great time with the car for a summer, then sold it for $1500 and used the $$$ to pay for a semester of collage. Mine was the same red, but with a Camel interior. Mine had a DOHC 1.8 Litre 5-speed manual. Mine had a 2bbl Webber that was like 1/2 a 4bbl with a primary and secondary. I paid "Antonio" the rally team engine builder to swap out cam shafts, add a header, and a dual 2bbl intake and carbs. So the little I-4 really woke up! Had a lot of fun with that car! http://maine.craigslist.org/cto/4986973931.html
Amazing the memories cars bring back. Seems that most of my life revolves around cars and trucks some way. At least that's how I remember things.
I agree i look back at what i was driving at any time to figure out what year it was at any time. Us car guys are truly weird! When asking directions how many of you ask whats sitting in the driveway more so than the color of the house?
I used to do that but not anymore, when you get a answer for example, "Guy drives a grey Dodge crew cab with a hemi".... well there is 5 or 6 of them on my street alone. How ever when giving directions for my house I normally just give the street name and say look for the station wagons. Nobody has had a problem finding my house
Around our neighborhood they are red Dodge trucks. If I come to your house I'll look for the fat guy laying in the grass with dogs licking his face at a green house! Not greenhouse but green house.
