Lancia Motor Club

There's a 4 page buyer's guide to the Aurelia in Classic Cars this month.  I thought it was a well balanced piece in terms of its view of the various models, their character, merits, different values etc.  Slight fly in the ointment was the photos being mis-captioned (main featured car is a 4th Series which is described as 3rd) and photos of 3 cars for sale were all either against the wrong description (two swapped) or just the wrong model (spider rather than convertible).  A bit sloppy that; but I won't be writing in with my application for pedant of the month..

They have rather messed up with the photo captions, I think they must have been confused because they drove Peter Harding's 3rd series which is the same colour as the 4th series they photographed, that was also supplied by Pete.
It is such a shame that Classic Cars always go overboard with the colour saturation of their photos, in real life the B20 they had for the studio shots is nowhere near as bright a blue as they have printed it.  They did exactly the same when they did an article with my B50 last year.
As you say William they have also totally messed up with the photos/descriptions of the cars for sale, don't know why!

I was in the WH Smith "reading room" today - the guide was much enjoyed for what it is, but I put it back on the shelf.

The one I did buy up was The Automobile for the feature on Woodies (and to put ALL thoughts of perhaps maybe one day an Aurelia Berlina out of my mind) and what do I find but a running report on their B12.  What a lovely car that is...  It has just been to Peter Harding for some work on the brakes: a master cylinder conversion he does, front hoses, stainless sleeves for the front cylinders after a hone failed to seal, work on the reservoir and suspension oiling.

David

Just for you David....

Got the edition this am and as luck would have it the June 1989 Classic and Sportscar edition also arrived this morning from a very pleasant ebay seller.

Comparing the two, the '89 version is a longer, nicer, more rounded read, lots of usefully detailed info and and a great input from John Savage.

Photos aren't as good, but I prefer words and knowledge as opposed to glossy pics.

P

That woody is quite a thing...  Anyone else more pictures? 

I also love the pictures of Berlinas with roof racks.

David

My favourite roof rack picture.  Hemingway and B21.

(http://www.lanciastory.pl/wp-content/gallery/aurelia-belina/hemingway-aurelia-b21.jpg)

I'm going to get one made for my B10.

If anyone knows of an original Berlina roof rack that I could have reference photos / measurements from, that would be wonderful.

We're getting a bit off topic..... but, for a picture of a B20 with a roofrack look at the Lancia Club France web site where there are pictures of the ex-John Limmington B20 complete with original roofrack on their stand at Retromobile.

http://www.lanciaclubfrance.com/retromobile2012/page8.html

we really should start a new thread...... but....
Here's the woody interior

Keeping off topic...

I have several close-up photos of that particular B20 roof rack.  The construction doesn't look like the pictures I have of B10/21/22 racks, so I don't know how useful it is as reference.   

I'm hoping that someone somewhere (Italy?) has a first series Berlina with an original factory roof rack.  I say 'factory', but actually I'm not sure if they would have been supplied by Lancia themselves.  The cars have mounting points 'ex-factory' so someone must have been making the racks (portabagagli) to an exact specification.  Does anyone know more?

Do you have to be a member of their club or just the forum to post on it?


P

Re French Lancia Club, you have to be a member to access any thing on the 'Espace membres' pages.

Thanks for that, seems an interesting site, I note guys from the UK club often joining them in their outings


P

Viotti Giardinetta(autopuzzle)

A few of us are entered in our Lambdas and Augustas in their Rally in September. Always great events.

             Regards, John

you might be interested to know that Tim Burrett has just made himself a roof rack for his Aurelia Sedan using the various photos above and others as a reference...but with particular adaptations for his needs.

I feel a continental holiday coming on then...........in 3............4...........5................maybe 6 years time!!!


:)


P

Roofrack at the Targa Florio

The photo of Hemingway and the B10 21802-UD rang a bell, but it was not quite right!  21807-UD was the once highly original B10 which John Grant owned for a long time (B10-3820 or 21) and I believe may be owned by Toby Hannen now.  John's car came to the UK in 1968.

Paul Mayo

Another Berlina with a modern roofrack

Flavia

Flavia it is.

I would have a bit of difficulty fitting a roof rack to my Flavia......

Very nice Tim! I expect the boot is a useful size though

Excellent picnic car - very big boot!

And do not forget the boot rack option for a really big trip !!!!!

                                Andy