Lancia Motor Club
Model Technical and Interest => Aurelia => Topic started by: impaw on 30 January, 2025, 09:47:29 PM
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Hallo all,
As you might know, I bought my Aurelia in a totally dismantled state.
Everything was in boxes, and worse, it had been in boxes for 40 years and changed owners many times.
So, on my shelves I have a lot of small boxes with parts I do not know where should go or even if they belong on the Aurelia.
In this thread I will show some of these parts, and perhaps somebody recognizes their correct function and placement?
Quiz#1
First, and perhaps easy Question:
What is the encircled arrangement for? is it to secure the radiator perhaps?
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Quiz#2
What are these parts for?
The two long linkages are approx 13cm long
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Quiz#3
What might these pieces be?
They are marked "M" and "A"
Approx 8cm long
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1 - the body mounting bracket for the adjustable radiator top mounting struts (with rubber bushes) in 2.
I think the springs in 2 are from the Rad bottom mounts, my B10 has them but not sure about S4 B20.
3 - not sure!
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Thank you William!
So the answer to 1 and 2 were right under my nose😅
I bough new springs from Cavalitto a couple of months ago - should have checked the boxes more thoroughly!
More «mysteries» coming up in the next few days:)
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Quiz#4
Here are some parts that I found together in a box.
Do they ring a bell?
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Quiz#5
Does anybody recognize these parts?
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Quiz#6
And finally, I have these...
Thats it for now.
There are fewer boxes with parts than I remembered, must mean I am making progress (or my memory is going)
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Slightly off topic, but this reminds me of an occasion some years ago when for reasons of tidiness I decide loosely to assemble an Aprilia gearbox I had acquired in bits, assured (as one always is) that it was "all there". It was around 20 years since I had been inside one, but I set to with a will.
Several hours, and many attempts, later, I gave in and started counting the components off against the Parts Manual. It was then, with close examination, I discovered that the "extra" gear for which I could find no home was marked Mowog, rather than Lancia.
It had indeed been all there......with an extra bonus.
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Tony, this might be the case with several of the parts presented here as well:)
A couple of years ago I tried to fit the included steering box to the Aurelia.
After some cursing etc. I realized it was actually an Appia steering box!
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There used to be a standing joke among mechanics:
When rebuilding an engine, success was defined by the size of the pile of "left over" parts that didn't seem to get back in. Smaller piles were better. But there was always something left over!
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There used to be a standing joke among mechanics:
When rebuilding an engine, success was defined by the size of the pile of "left over" parts that didn't seem to get back in. Smaller piles were better. But there was always something left over!
At least my pile(s) of parts are getting smaller, so I am headed in the right direction! :D
But, in hindsight - I have learned the hard way to NEVER buy a disassembled project. Especially one that has been disassembled for 40 years.
I would have been much better of buying a complete car - then taking it apart for restoration.
The amount of money I have spent on parts (that were supposed to be included with the project) is not something I want to think about, haha