The Weekend Aussie BBQ , Vino, Fishing and Driving Thread...

I'm looking forward to the day when I own one only property and can wave goodbye to the SRO.......

 

Yes it makes a mockery of the notion of 'private property' when the state can levy an arbitrary tax which effectively garnishes the lions share of the rental return



Nevertheless !

I have a plan . . . .

 

After 18 years, reunited with the Stratos.

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Is that a real one?


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is that this car ?
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No, that's the ex-Briggs museum car. It doesn't have a chassis number.

Ours was ex-Omicron UK, a well known and documented Stradale-to-Group 4 conversion. With a chassis number

 

LHD POS. I'll have the RHD one...

 

So, WTF is it?

 

I do love the door pockets that can fit a helmet.

 

How do you know that?

Did you get that information from an ad visor? [emoji16]

 

nobody knows. A possible explanation is it's the bits from a real car transposed onto a replica tub. It isn't stamped with a chassis number because the real cars are well documented and you'd quickly be caught out. Thomas Popper is the Lancia equivalent of Marcel Massini and (a) he has exhaustive records and (b) everybody knows him.

There's also the complication of "scocca" numbers, which is a reference number Lancia stamped on door hinges, boot lids, etc. People place a lot of store in them but Italian manufacturing and record keeping was inherently chaotic and real cars can have inconsistent scocca numbers.

Bottom line is that you need multiple sources of truth to verify a car. Not only the numbers on it, but period photos, original registration & logbook documentation, verification in well researched books, etc.

 

Congrat Ian!!!
is it road legal? Or just for track?

 

Just like an early Lotus, especially a 7 - provenance is everything.

 

and so many of those were done in period ,real issue .

 

I met the car again, not as an owner. I was offered a half share but declined - I don't have the motivation anymore plus I have a thing about not going back.

 

BlackJag made an appearance at StIves this morning along with KIA’s Stratos
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Does the owner of the Stratos accept souls in exchange for a ride in that car?

 

I'd love to look under the bonnet of that BDA Escort

 

WHOM has copied my BlackJag-unless it's the one from Canberra!

 

So a double ACT? [emoji1635]

 

CTS had it for sale years ago/

 

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Shame about the headgear Chin, just saying

 

Hide the ugly face