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Title: Fulvia Sport Post by: Richard Fridd on 29 July, 2014, 04:40:30 PM At http://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/lancia/fulvia/1967/244670 (B+W Targa photo from elsewhere, and perhaps also drilled etc)
Title: Re: Fulvia Sport Post by: DavidLaver on 29 July, 2014, 06:53:38 PM I love all the under bonnet drilling. Am doing up a trailer to carry a friend's Austin 7 to his first event at Goodwood this Saturday - anyone passing? Its a Brighton club sprint. I put a winch on with a new bracket to raise it for clearance and couldn't resist getting out the hole saws and drills "just because". A friend sent me this a while back - still sitting in my inbox for a "proper look sometime". The concept is "drillium" as an alternative to making from "unobtainium". http://bikeretrogrouch.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/drillium-style.html David Title: Re: Fulvia Sport Post by: stanley sweet on 30 July, 2014, 09:09:51 AM The Zagato is drilled like the original Competiziones although I think there's even a bit more on this version - like the tops of the subframe turrets and above the rear window. It seems a reasonable price for a car prepared like this.
'Drillium' reminded me of an article on Jack Brabham in this month's Motorsport. His first car was a Cooper Bristol. The crankshaft on its 2 litre Bristol engine was so spindly that the mass of the flywheel and clutch could snap it just by spinning the car. Jack fitted a lighter clutch and machined the flywheel until he'd got it down to 15lbs rather than the original 85.............. |