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I agree, magic car, all left hookers except the naf conversions, and better than those wanky Subaru's 
almost bought a '91 8v Integrale last summer. I could afford the car, but the potential bills scared me off.
Having said that, just shelled out £725 on a friggin Saab this week :\ohwell:
There is a place in Bewedly , Worcestershire by my mother in-laws that imports em. Great to look around em.
One can but dream :)
I have a video footage of Quentin Wilson test driving one on Top Gear, the second hand value must have soared after he finished singing their praises.
Ace Car
I had a Corrado VR6 for 4 years which was fookin ace on the road, used to have some great tussles with a Boxster drivin mate coming home from work down Cheshire's back roads. But a sorry substitute for the Lancia god.
Too much hassle though, £1800 a year to insure and kept gettin robbed.
I still have Tiff Nedell test driving it on Top Gear on DVD
Maya drives a Red Lancia....apparently 
Maya drives a Red Lancia....apparently
You serious?
We must discuss evo intergrale's ove a beer 
worth every penny if it gave you more thrills than grief. drove a fine TR around New Zealand's south Island was a.. challenge at times but so fine it was.
JW wrote: worth every penny if it gave you more thrills than grief. drove a fine TR around New Zealand's south Island was a.. challenge at times but so fine it was.
sounds fookin top that! I got pulled on South Island by a copper for doing 125kmph, in a battered rented Corolla, still got the unpaid ticket upstairs!
Digital Mike wrote:
Maya drives a Red Lancia....apparently
You serious?
We must discuss evo intergrale's ove a beer
yeh, although I dont think it's an Integrale 
Digital Mike wrote: http://www.anticsonline.co.uk/692_1_1033147.html
It'll still rust in 2 weeks 
just saw that--
they sould've paid you to give them the Corolla and take it off the road. maybe given you one of their motor bikes in exchange? Still, any car is a good car if it drives from A-B 
mostly.
Is NO's 'Fine Time really named after a ticket that Peter Hook got in Belgium a few (read: too many) years back ? The tune's words, like many, has no reference to the title.
JW wrote: just saw that-- they sould've paid you to give them the Corolla and take it off the road. maybe given you one of their motor bikes in exchange? Still, any car is a good car if it drives from A-B
never heard that one!
Did the traffic warden have lurve technique?
Barney Army wrote:
Digital Mike wrote:
Maya drives a Red Lancia....apparently
You serious?
We must discuss evo intergrale's ove a beer
yeh, although I dont think it's an Integrale
Aye RED Lancia Delta 16V (NOT Integrale)
Would gladly sell it for a citizenship 
Nope and nope :\ohwell:
Will take a pic tomorrow and post it for ya if you like. And the plates begin with 666, honest 
Barney Army wrote:
Having said that, just shelled out £725 on a friggin Saab this week :\ohwell:
Is it a 900? I sold my old 900i and bought a 9000 turbo two weeks ago. Been very impressed with it so far. Vrooom.
King of Nothing wrote:
Barney Army wrote:
Having said that, just shelled out £725 on a friggin Saab this week :\ohwell:
Is it a 900? I sold my old 900i and bought a 9000 turbo two weeks ago. Been very impressed with it so far. Vrooom.
£725 on bills mate !!!
9-3 Aero, with some mods by these nutters..
Barney Army wrote:
King of Nothing wrote:
Barney Army wrote:
Having said that, just shelled out £725 on a friggin Saab this week :\ohwell:
Is it a 900? I sold my old 900i and bought a 9000 turbo two weeks ago. Been very impressed with it so far. Vrooom.
£725 on bills mate !!!
9-3 Aero, with some mods by these nutters..
You've got class. Gotta love the Aero.
Digital Mike wrote:
Maya drives a Red Lancia....apparently
You serious?
We must discuss evo intergrale's ove a beer
Suppose its only logical that such impeccable taste in cars would be found on this site. I fookin love integrales, never owned one unfortunately, by the time i could (just) afford one i was driving boring diesel company cars and couldnt really justify 2 cars, let alone fit them on the drive. I had a Prisma years ago(Delta with a boot, Escort/Orion scenario)and that was cool at the time. That Walkers place looks like heaven, they had a lush Evo 3 in there last time i looked. If i win the lottery thats first stop!
I drove a Delta HF turbo that was modded to about 230bhp (front wheels only obviously) in the New Forest on a wet day....that was fun! Wheelspinning in third. Have only ever been a passenger in a grale, have to say it was more enjoyable than the Impreza WRX i drove just before Christmas.
I read somewhere that Hooky had one as a Factory company car, so we are in good company. Jake Dudek used to have one too.
Barney Army wrote:
Having said that, just shelled out £725 on a friggin Saab this week :\ohwell:
Didnt you have a Smart Roadster Nick? Or was that your mate at Ashton-u-Lyme? I remember (and i was fucked) the conversation
Edd Boland wrote:
Barney Army wrote:
Having said that, just shelled out £725 on a friggin Saab this week :\ohwell:
Didnt you have a Smart Roadster Nick? Or was that your mate at Ashton-u-Lyme? I remember (and i was fucked) the conversation
Me? Smart Roadster
yeh, that was my my mate Dil
although he is toying with the idea of chippin it to something ridiculous. I did warn him it'll just blow up.
NObabe wrote:
Barney Army wrote:
Digital Mike wrote:
Maya drives a Red Lancia....apparently
You serious?
We must discuss evo intergrale's ove a beer
yeh, although I dont think it's an Integrale
Aye RED Lancia Delta 16V (NOT Integrale)
Would gladly sell it for a citizenship
Looks like if you drive to NOOL day that wont be a problem
Barney Army wrote:
Edd Boland wrote:
Barney Army wrote:
Having said that, just shelled out £725 on a friggin Saab this week :\ohwell:
Didnt you have a Smart Roadster Nick? Or was that your mate at Ashton-u-Lyme? I remember (and i was fucked) the conversation
yeh, that was my my mate Dil
although he is toying with the idea of chippin it to something ridiculous. I did warn him it'll just blow up.
What 80 bhp??
No i drove an HF turbo, modded to 230 bhp ish. Grale power but 2 wheel drive so nowhere near as good in the bendy bits. The last bit was it was more fun being a passenger in a Grale than me driving a Subaru. Definately a Coldplay fans car
http://www.walkers-garage.co.uk/images/m18wsr\_front.jpg
http://www.walkers-garage.co.uk/images/verde\_york\_front.jpg
Lord Blue and Yorke Green look fookin ace on the later Evos. The very last run was built in Japan you know....
Barney Army wrote:
NObabe wrote:
Barney Army wrote:
Digital Mike wrote:
Maya drives a Red Lancia....apparently
You serious?
We must discuss evo intergrale's ove a beer
yeh, although I dont think it's an Integrale
Aye RED Lancia Delta 16V (NOT Integrale)
Would gladly sell it for a citizenship
Looks like if you drive to NOOL day that wont be a problem
Deal! 
Oh bummer, I can't drive on the left side of the road :\ohwell:
NObabe wrote:
Barney Army wrote:
Digital Mike wrote:
Maya drives a Red Lancia....apparently
You serious?
We must discuss evo intergrale's ove a beer
yeh, although I dont think it's an Integrale
Aye RED Lancia Delta 16V (NOT Integrale)
Would gladly sell it for a citizenship
Am guessing if its 16v its one of the new shape ones, after Lancia got the strop on and stopped exporting to RHD countries?
NObabe wrote: Edd, excuse my ignorance but what are RHD countries ??
Sorry, right hand drive. Really just UK, South Africa and Australia/New Zealand. Lancia stopped production about 12 years ago cos they didnt last too well in the UK, the rain made them all rust away.
Edd Boland wrote:
NObabe wrote: Edd, excuse my ignorance but what are RHD countries ??
Sorry, right hand drive. Really just UK, South Africa and Australia/New Zealand. Lancia stopped production about 12 years ago cos they didnt last too well in the UK, the rain made them all rust away.
Mine's more like this one :)
NObabe wrote:
Edd Boland wrote:
NObabe wrote: Edd, excuse my ignorance but what are RHD countries ??
Sorry, right hand drive. Really just UK, South Africa and Australia/New Zealand. Lancia stopped production about 12 years ago cos they didnt last too well in the UK, the rain made them all rust away.
Mine's more like this one :)
Same wheels as mine had. Nice car, are they very popular in Serbia? Ive never seen many Lancias in any country, although ive never been to Italy.
Digital Mike wrote:
Mine's more like this one
That's minging !
Beats the shit out of a Ford or Vauxhall of the same age
the blacknone is nice-est !
Barney Army: correction/ gets better. the 'Fine Time' title comes from Steve Morris. says that they'd just finished the record off in Bath and his car got towed.
to remind him to pay the fine and get the car he wrote Fine Time on a piece of paper. --if that is to be believed.from the notes in the song browser section. greatest site. gush, gushh, you all.
Edd Boland wrote: Same wheels as mine had. Nice car, are they very popular in Serbia? I
ve never seen many Lancias in any country, although ive never been to Italy.
It's not mine, just googled it to find a pic. Will post a pic of mine (Lancia, Mike, Lancia) tomorrow. Dunno, deffo seen more Lancias here than Saabs but neither of them are that much popular. I think us freaky Serbs dig Golfs instead
Another great although little known Lancia from the late 80s/early 90s is the Thema 8.32 Looks like a Saab 9000, only it has a Genuine Ferrari V8 under the hood. About 4000 quid for a decent one on ebay. Only left hand drive surprisingly, but imagine the looks you would get blipping the throttle at the traffic lights!!
NObabe wrote:
Edd Boland wrote: Same wheels as mine had. Nice car, are they very popular in Serbia? I
ve never seen many Lancias in any country, although ive never been to Italy.It's not mine, just googled it to find a pic. Will post a pic of mine (Lancia, Mike, Lancia)
Nothing wrong with that either. Especially Mark one GTis. Saw a gorgeous one in Stockport the other morning with an old gal driving. Not as great as a Grale of course, but they sound so mean!!
the black one, not blacknone, is the nicest. but, what's the steering wheel doing on the left-hand-side? don,t you guys drive sideways like Australia. My grand-uncle had an Austin that he drove for 1/2 the year in London then took it up to Sweden for the the summer months. That legally, somehow, went on for years.
A while back Walkers had one of those S4's. The Group B widowmaker, actually it did kill 2 people I seem to remember. Obv the buyer just stuck it in storage to collect.
Imagine racin an EVO around a forest, then goin to a New Order gig, with Kylie.
I've just cum.
Oh, and obv United win the European Cup that same night.
Now which is the least likely?
JW wrote: the blacknone is nice-est !
Yeah. And what would happen to the first one of your mates who got a fag burn in THAT seat??:dead:
JW wrote: the black one, not blacknone, is the nicest. but, what's the steering wheel doing on the left-hand-side? don,t you guys drive sideways like Australia. My grand-uncle had an Austin that he drove for 1/2 the year in London then took it up to Sweden for the the summer months. That legally, somehow, went on for years.
The integrale was only ever imported to the UK as a left hand drive. You can get converted ones, but they tend to be shit and devalue the car. Some people complain it hinders overtaking, but then again you have so much acceleration that you can overtake in half the time anyway!!
Oh yeah and its not illegal to own a left hand drive here, you just have to have it re-registered on UK plates.
Barney Army wrote: A while back Walkers had one of those S4's. The Group B widowmaker, actually it did kill 2 people I seem to remember. Obv the buyer just stuck it in storage to collect.
Imagine racin an EVO around a forest, then goin to a New Order gig, with Kylie.
I've just cum.
Oh, and obv United win the European Cup that same night.
Now which is the least likely?
Thats just excessive!! I want one
I used to play footy with a guy that was a Lancia Manchester salesman, back in '94. He drove a factory converted RHD 16v Integrale, not an EVO. I remember being a passenger during a motorway tussle with another teammate in a 911. The 911 got the better, eventually, but get the fookers on a rally circuit!!! We all know who's the daddy.
CAn I just throw in Audi Quattro? Superb motor, but doesnt have the drop dead looks of the Delta
Yeah UR-quattros are great. Again, i had the poverty version in my youth, the 2 wheel drive, 2.0 5cyl. However i was 19 and all my mates had girly metros and fiestas so i was the daddy. Got the grale pics, btw. Thats a nice one n all. Mind you, im paying 1800 to insure a mondeo so fuck knows what that would cost
LHD never put me off really. Drove to the Nurburgring this summer down some mad windy roads and it wasnt a problem.
But I was fooked when I tried to leave a hotel car park and the ticket machine was on the wrong side
Now a New Order gig at the Nurburgring, that would be good. Id go balls out and hire a skyline for the weekend
Edd Boland wrote: Now a New Order gig at the Nurburgring, that would be good. Id go balls out and hire a skyline for the weekend
Reckon we could persuade Re:Order to do Cologne? :)
beauty. was with a guy on that aforementioned (a great word indeed)trip in NZ, when driving some of those roads along cliff banks that have signs that say no passing and things to that effect the speed and handling was a big important thing. stupid youth. hope that we never lose it. on the RHD /LHD steering wheel- the g-uncle did have to go through registration hoops but I think that he felt that he was always one-up on everyone for 'getting away with it.
any burns to the seats- of the black one- wouldn't be a problem- just get a new one ! where's problem ?
