• Dressed in Lancia Blue, this 1968 Fulvia coupe it is a rare and beautiful little car with amazingly advanced technology.
• The tiny 1.3-liter narrow-angle V-4 delivers about 87 horsepower and (if new) accelerates a car weighing about 2,000 pounds to 60 miles per hour in 12.6 seconds. period test y Road and track.
• Fulvia – an interesting and more affordable alternative to the Alfa Romeo GTV of the same vintage variety, so rare that you are almost certain you will never see another outside the Lancia club meetings. It is up for auction on Bring a Trailer, bidding ends on Tuesday, May 24th.
It’s more than a little weird when explicit photos of your ex appear online. But that’s exactly what happened this week when 150 photos of my former Lancia Fulvia appeared Bring a trailer– which, how Car and driveris part of Hearst Autos. It was my first classic. I bought the Lancia Blue on the 1968 Series 1 Fulvia ruddy vinyl after noticing it on Bring the trailer in late 2008. Then in Bring a Trailer interesting and amazing cars were listed; there were still a few years left before the exciting auction he became.
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Purchased on the wise advice of the investor Jamie Keatmanwho assured me that his Fulvia would most likely be the last car he would sell from his collection of more than 30 cars I drove to Connecticut from Michigan to C / D ‘s long-term Jaguar XF see and go to Fulvia. I turned to Lancia mechanic Frank Mr. from Dominick European Car Repair in White Plains, New York for help to give me another set of eyes and expert opinion. Although we noticed some rusty floorboards, the car came with a replacement kit. Spadaro noted several other minor issues, including a carburetor that supplies too much fuel.
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The seller brought the car from Italy, painted it, re-equipped the cabin and replaced it with a new engine. Despite the fact that looking at the car in the rain is never good – when the street is wet, everything seems nicer and more comfortable, and it is difficult to see the paint well – the weather was not conducive. I missed a few cracks in the paint, but overall the Fulvia looked the way it was advertised. A few days before my 35th birthday I bought it and the car went directly to White Plains for a minor restoration that included several repairs from rust, cleaning the fuel system and tuning to bring it back to its original mechanical shape.
Fulvia running hard is a joy to command. The ridiculously long shift lever comes out of the firewall, but the four-speed forward movement is smooth and precise. A hasty change of one or two leads to a breakdown from synchrony, something noted in Road and track Fulvia coupe test. Delicate precision permeates the entire mechanism, from how the door closes, to the amazing steering feedback without assistance when it bends into a corner. There is nothing particularly interesting in the front and rear suspension on the control levers, except for the transverse leaf spring that suspends the front. Push as hard as you want, the Fulvia just eats up abuse, a trait that helped make it a rally car that won the World Cup.
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The credit for the light feel is part of the tuning, but it’s also a 2,000-pound curb weight that’s only about 100 pounds heavier than 2005 Lotus Elise which replaced the Lancia. Fixed steel exterior panels, and I had aluminum doors, a hood and a trunk lid. The opening of the hood shows a narrow-angle V-4, which is inclined at about 45 degrees, and the entire transmission and front suspension is mounted on a subframe. Power is transmitted to the front wheels, and the longitudinal four-cylinder moves in front of the front axle line, as in most modern Audi.
On the Fulvia Highway, it was happily spinning at 80 miles per hour, and the narrow-angle four were happily buzzing, roaring through the intake manifold and roaring exhaust. Across the city, the 1.3-liter engine provided enough power to accelerate quickly on the floor. R&T acceleration 12.6 seconds to 60 mph and 18.6 second quarter mileage at 75 mph. The mechanical tune he sings is the one you want to continue, and because it’s not fast, you hear the engine running and the transmission buzzing. The four-wheel disc brakes without assistance quickly stopped the small compartment and offered a beautiful solid pedal with a strong bite.
After moving to Los Angeles I was going to use it as a daily driver, but the failure of the master cylinder at the beginning of its work at SoCal made me a little embarrassed to use it to run out to buy cabbage and avocado salads and everything you do when you live in California. Spare parts are surprisingly many and inexpensive. Except for the generator rebuild in 2010 or so, Fulvia never asked for attention.
The Lancia community is tiny, so when I started talking about the sale, a buyer soon appeared, whose enthusiasm for the car gave me the confidence that it would be cared for. For years the current owner, and now the seller, has invited me to visit and ride the Fulvia. The races always included a report of all the work and love he poured into it.
Lancia produced about 250,000 Fulvia coupes from 1965 to 1976, but it is an extremely rare car in the States. Take a friend to a car dealership and be prepared to answer a variety of questions, including, “What is this Corvair?” But the advantage is that you will meet a lot of memorable people because it is an interesting car that attracts interesting people. The auction ends on Tuesday, May 24, so at this point there are only a few days left to get one of the most beautiful and special little cars I have ever owned.
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